Replication-Defective Flavivirus Vaccines and Vaccine Vectors

ABSTRACT

This invention provides replication-defective flavivirus vaccines and vaccine vectors, and corresponding compositions and methods.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to replication-defective flavivirus vaccines and vaccine vectors, and corresponding compositions and methods.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Flaviviruses are distributed worldwide and represent a global public health problem. Flaviviruses also have a significant impact as veterinary pathogens. Flavivirus pathogens include yellow fever (YF), dengue types 1-4 (DEN1-4), Japanese encephalitis (JE), West Nile (WN), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), and other viruses from the TBE serocomplex, such as Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) and Omsk hemorrhagic fever (OHF) viruses. Vaccines against YF [live attenuated vaccine (LAV) strain 17D], JE [inactivated vaccines (INV) and LAV], and TBE (INV) are available. No licensed human vaccines are currently available against DEN and WN. Veterinary vaccines have been in use including, for example, vaccines against WN in horses (INV, recombinant and live chimeric vaccines), JE (INV and LAV) to prevent encephalitis in horses and stillbirth in pigs in Asia, louping ill flavivirus (INV) to prevent neurologic disease in sheep in the UK, and TBE (INV) used in farm animals in Czech Republic (INV) (Monath and Heinz, Flaviviruses, in Fields et al. Eds., Fields Virology, 3rd Edition, Philadelphia, N.Y., Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1996, pp. 961-1034).

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is the most important tick-borne viral disease of humans. It is endemic in parts of Europe and Northern Asia, causing more than 10,000 hospitalizations annually, with a case-fatality rate 0.5-1.5% in Europe and 6-40% in Siberia and the Far East. A significant proportion of patients suffer from long-lasting neuropsychiatric sequelae. Inactivated vaccines produced in chick embryo cell cultures have proven effective in preventing the disease. For example, an 86% vaccination coverage of the Austrian population (the highest among European countries) has resulted in an approximately 90% reduction of hospitalized cases (Heinz and Kunz, Arch. Virol. Suppl. 18:201-205, 2004). The inactivated vaccines are expensive and require three inoculations for primary immunization. Periodic boosters (every 2-5 years) are required to maintain immunity. Therefore, a less costly TBE vaccine, which is effective after one-two doses and provides durable, such as life-long immunity (similar to that achieved by YF 17D immunization) is needed, and indeed has been identified by the WHO as a major priority. Development of TBE LAV candidates in the past several decades by means of empirical or rational attenuation of TBE virus parent per se or chimerization of TBE or Langat (LGT, a naturally attenuated flavivirus that is closely related (serologically) to TBE) viruses with dengue 4 virus has faced difficulties due to problems with residual virulence of candidates and/or low immunogenicity/overattenuation (Wright et al., Vaccine 26:882-890, 2008; Maximova et al., J. Virol. 82:5255-5268, 2008; Rumyantsev et al., Vaccine 24:133-143, 2006; Kofler et al., Arch. Virol. Suppl. 18:191-200, 2004; and references therein).

Flaviviruses are small, enveloped, plus-strand RNA viruses transmitted primarily by arthropod vectors (mosquitoes or ticks) to natural hosts, which are primarily vertebrate animals, such as various mammals, including humans, and birds. The flavivirus genomic RNA molecule is about 11,000 nucleotides (nt) in length and encompasses a long open reading frame (ORF) flanked by 5′ and 3′ untranslated terminal regions (UTRs) of about 120 and 500 nucleotides in length, respectively. The ORF encodes a polyprotein precursor that is cleaved co- and post-translationally to generate individual viral proteins. The proteins are encoded in the order: C-prM/M-E-NS1-NS2A/2B-NS3-NS4A/4B-NS5, where C (core/capsid), prM/M (pre-membrane/membrane), and E (envelope) are the structural proteins, i.e., the components of viral particles, and the NS proteins are non-structural proteins, which are involved in intracellular virus replication. Flavivirus replication occurs in the cytoplasm. Upon infection of cells and translation of genomic RNA, processing of the polyprotein starts with translocation of the prM portion of the polyprotein into the lumen of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of infected cells, followed by translocation of E and NS1 portions, as directed by the hydrophobic signals for the prM, E, and NS1 proteins. Amino-termini of prM, E, and NS1 proteins are generated by cleavage with cellular signalase, which is located on the luminal side of the ER membrane, and the resulting individual proteins remain carboxy-terminally anchored in the membrane. Most of the remaining cleavages, in the nonstructural region, are carried out by the viral NS2B/NS3 serine protease. The viral protease is also responsible for generating the C-terminus of the mature C protein found in progeny virions. Newly synthesized genomic RNA molecules and the C protein form a dense spherical nucleocapsid, which becomes surrounded by cellular membrane in which the E and prM proteins are embedded. The mature M protein is produced by cleavage of prM shortly prior to virus release by cellular furin or a similar protease. E, the major protein of the envelope, is the principal target for neutralizing antibodies, the main correlate of immunity against flavivirus infection. Virus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response is the other key attribute of immunity. Multiple CD8+ and CD4+ CTL epitopes have been characterized in various flavivirus structural and non-structural proteins. In addition, innate immune responses contribute to both virus clearance and regulating the development of adaptive immune responses and immunologic memory.

In addition to the inactivated (INV) and live-attenuated (LAV) vaccines against flaviviruses discussed above, other vaccine platforms have been developed. One example is based on chimeric flaviviruses that include yellow fever virus capsid and non-structural sequences and prM-E proteins from other flaviviruses, to which immunity is sought. This technology has been used to develop vaccine candidates against dengue (DEN), Japanese encephalitis (JE), West Nile (WN), and St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) viruses (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,962,708 and 6,696,281). Yellow fever virus-based chimeric flaviviruses have yielded highly promising results in clinical trials.

Another flavivirus vaccine platform is based on the use of pseudoinfectious virus (PIV) technology (Mason et al., Virology 351:432-443, 2006; Shustov et al., J. Virol. 21:11737-11748, 2007; Widman et al., Adv. Virus. Res. 72:77-126, 2008; Suzuki et al., J. Virol. 82:6942-6951, 2008; Suzuki et al., J. Virol. 83:1870-1880, 2009; Ishikawa et al., Vaccine 26:2772-2781, 2008; Widman et al., Vaccine 26:2762-2771, 2008). PIVs are replication-defective viruses attenuated by a deletion(s). Unlike live flavivirus vaccines, they undergo a single round replication in vivo (or optionally limited rounds, for two-component constructs; see below), which may provide benefits with respect to safety. PIVs also do not induce viremia and systemic infection. Further, unlike inactivated vaccines, PIVs mimic whole virus infection, which can result in increased efficacy due to the induction of robust B- and T-cell responses, higher durability of immunity, and decreased dose requirements. Similar to whole viruses, PIV vaccines target antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells, stimulate toll-like receptors (TLRs), and induce balanced Th1/Th2 immunity. In addition, PIV constructs have been shown to grow to high titers in substrate cells, with little or no cytopathic effect (CPE), allowing for high-yield manufacture, optionally employing multiple harvests and/or expansion of infected substrate cells.

The principles of the PIV technology are illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2. There are two variations of the technology. In the first variation, a single-component pseudoinfectious virus (s-PIV) is constructed with a large deletion in the capsid protein (C), rendering mutant virus unable to form infectious viral particles in normal cells (FIG. 1). The deletion does not remove the first ˜20 codons of the C protein, which contain an RNA cyclization sequence, and a similar number of codons at the end of C, which encode a viral protease cleavage site and the signal peptide for prM. The s-PIV can be propagated, e.g., during manufacture, in substrate (helper) cell cultures in which the C protein is supplied in trans, e.g., in stably transfected cells producing the C protein (or a larger helper cassette including C protein), or in cells containing an alphavirus replicon [e.g., a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE) replicon] expressing the C protein or another intracellular expression vector expressing the C protein. Following inoculation in vivo, e.g., after immunization, the PIV undergoes a single round of replication in infected cells in the absence of trans-complementation of the deletion, without spread to surrounding cells. The infected cells produce empty virus-like particles (VLPs), which are the product of the prM-E genes in the PIV, resulting in the induction of neutralizing antibody response. A T-cell response should also be induced via MHCI presentation of viral epitopes. This approach has been applied to YF 17D virus and WN viruses and WN/JE and WN/DEN2 chimeric viruses (Mason et al., Virology 351:432-443, 2006; Suzuki et al., J. Virol. 83:1870-1880, 2009; Ishikawa et al., Vaccine 26:2772-2781, 2008; Widman et al., Vaccine 26:2762-2771, 2008; WO 2007/098267; WO 2008/137163).

In the second variation, a two-component PIV (d-PIV) is constructed (FIG. 2). Substrate cells are transfected with two defective viral RNAs, one with a deletion in the C gene and another lacking the prM-E envelope protein genes. The two defective genomes complement each other, resulting in accumulation of two types of PIVs in the cell culture medium (Shustov et al., J. Virol. 21:11737-11748, 2007; Suzuki et al., J. Virol. 82:6942-6951, 2008). Optionally, the two PIVs can be manufactured separately in appropriate helper cell lines and then mixed in a two-component formulation. The latter may offer an advantage of adjusting relative concentrations of the two components, increasing immunogenicity and efficacy. This type of PIV vaccine should be able to undergo a limited spread in vivo due to coinfection of some cells at the site of inoculation with both components. The spread is expected to be self-limiting as there are more cells in tissues than viral particles produced by initially coinfected cells. In addition, a relatively high MOI is necessary for efficient co-infection, and cells outside of the inoculation site are not expected to be efficiently coinfected (e.g., in draining lymph nodes). Cells infected with the ΔC PIV alone produce the highly immunogenic VLPs. Coinfected cells produce the two types of packaged defective viral particles, which also stimulate neutralizing antibodies. The limited infection is expected to result in a stronger neutralizing antibody response and T-cell response compared to s-PIVs. To decrease chances of recombination during manufacture or in vivo, including with circulating flaviviruses, viral sequences can be modified in both s-PIVs and d-PIVs using, e.g., synonymous codon replacements, to reduce nucleotide sequence homologies, and mutating the complementary cyclization 5′ and 3′ elements.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention provides replication-deficient or defective pseudoinfectious flaviviruses including a flavivirus genome that includes (i) one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), and (ii) sequences encoding one or more heterologous pathogen, cancer, or allergy-related immunogens. For example, the deletion/mutation can be within capsid (C) sequences; pre-membrane (prM) and/or envelope (E) sequences; capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), and envelope (E) sequences; or non-structural protein 1 (NS1) sequences.

The heterologous immunogen can be, for example, from a pathogen selected from the group consisting of a rabies virus (e.g., a rabies virus G protein epitope), Borrelia burgdorferi (e.g., OspA immunogen or an immunogenic fragment thereof), a tick (e.g., a tick saliva protein selected from the group consisting of 64TRP, Isac, and Salp20, or an immunogenic fragment thereof), an influenza virus (e.g., an influenza virus M2, hemaglutinnin (HA), or neuraminidase (NA) epitope, or an immunogenic fragment thereof), a human immunodeficiency virus (e.g., a codon-optimized HIV gag, tat/nef, or gp120 protein, or an immunogenic fragment thereof), a simian immunodeficiency virus, a human papilloma virus (e.g., an HPV16 or HPV18 capsid protein L1 or L2, or an immunogenic fragment thereof), a respiratory syncytial virus (e.g., a respiratory syncytial virus F or G glycoprotein), malaria parasite, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (also see below).

The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses can include sequences encoding a pre-membrane (prM) and/or envelope (E) protein. Further, the replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus genomes can be selected from those of yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Langat virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, dengue virus, and St. Louis encephalitis virus, attenuated strains thereof, and chimeras thereof (also see below). In various examples, the chimeras include pre-membrane (prM) and envelope (E) sequences of a first flavivirus (e.g., a tick-borne encephalitis virus or a Langat virus), and capsid (C) and non-structural sequences of a second, different flavivirus (e.g., a yellow fever, a West Nile, or Langat virus).

The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus genomes can be packaged in particles including pre-membrane (prM) and envelope (E) sequences from a flavivirus that is the same or different from that of the genomes. Further, the sequences encoding the heterologous immunogens can be inserted in the place of, or in combination with, the deletion(s) or mutation(s) of the one or more proteins.

The sequences encoding the heterologous immunogens can be inserted in the flavivirus genomes within sequences encoding the envelope (E) protein, within sequences encoding the non-structural 1 (NS1) protein, within sequences encoding the pre-membrane (prM) protein, intergenically between sequences encoding the envelope (E) protein and non-structural protein 1 (NS1), intergenically between non-structural protein 2B (NS2B) and non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and/or as a bicistronic insertion in the 3′ untranslated region of the flavivirus genome.

The invention also includes compositions including a first replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus, as described above, and a second (or further), different replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome that includes one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5). In these compositions, the one or more proteins encoded by the sequences in which the deletion(s) or mutation(s) occur in the second, different replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus are different from the one or more proteins encoded by the sequences in which the deletion(s) occur in the first replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus.

The invention further includes methods of inducing immune responses to an immunogen in a subject, which involves administering to the subject one or more replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus and/or composition as described herein to the subject. In various examples, the subject is at risk of but does not have an infection by the pathogen or a disease or condition associated with the cancer or allergy-related immunogen. In other examples, the subject has an infection by the pathogen or a disease or condition associated with the cancer or allergy-related immunogen. The invention thus includes prophylactic and therapeutic methods. In these methods, the immunogen can be from, for example, a pathogen selected from the group consisting of a rabies virus, Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick, an influenza virus, a human immunodeficiency virus, a simian immunodeficiency virus, a human papilloma virus, a respiratory syncytial virus, malaria parasite, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (also see below). Further, the methods can be for inducing an immune response against a protein encoded by the flavivirus genome, in addition to the source of the immunogen. In various examples, the subject is at risk of but does not have an infection by the flavivirus corresponding to the genome of the pseudoinfectious flavivirus, which includes sequences encoding a flavivirus pre-membrane and/or envelope protein. In other examples, the subject has an infection by the flavivirus corresponding to the genome of the pseudoinfectious flavivirus, which includes sequences encoding a flavivirus pre-membrane and/or envelope protein.

The invention also includes live, attenuated chimeric flaviviruses including a yellow fever virus in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis virus or a Langat virus, and the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the chimeric flavivirus includes a hybrid of yellow fever virus and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequences, or a variant thereof. In various examples, the capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence of the chimeric flavivirus includes yellow fever virus sequences in the amino terminal region and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences in the carboxy terminal region (see below).

Further, the invention includes live, attenuated chimeric flaviviruses including a West Nile virus in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus, and the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the chimeric flavivirus includes a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence, or a variant thereof.

The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions including one or more pseudoinfectious flavivirus, composition, or live, attenuated flavivirus as described herein, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent. Further, the compositions can include an adjuvant.

Also included in the invention are replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses including a flavivirus genome including one or more deletion(s) or mutation(s) in nucleotide sequences encoding non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), or non-structural protein 5 (NS5).

Further, the invention includes nucleic acid molecules corresponding to the genome of a pseudoinfectious flavivirus, or the genome the live, attenuated flavivirus, as described herein, and complements thereof.

The invention also provides methods of making replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses as described herein, involving introducing one or more nucleic acid molecules, as described above, into a cell that expresses the protein(s) corresponding to any sequences deleted from the flavivirus genome of the replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses. In these methods, the protein can be expressed in the cell from the genome of a second (or further), different, replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus. In other examples, the protein is expressed from a replicon (e.g., an alphavirus replicon, such as a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus replicon; see below).

The invention also includes compositions containing two or more replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses, in which two of the replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses are selected from the groups consisting of: (a) a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing Japanese encephalitis virus sequences, and a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing dengue virus sequences; (b) a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing yellow fever virus sequences, and a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing dengue virus sequences; and (c) a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences and an inserted sequence encoding a Borrelia burgdorferi immunogen, and a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences and an inserted sequence encoding a tick saliva protein immunogen, or a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus including a genome containing tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences and inserted sequences encoding a Borrelia burgdorferi immunogen and a tick saliva protein immunogen.

Pharmaceutical compositions including the live, attenuated chimeric flaviviruses described herein are also included in the invention. Further, the invention includes methods of inducing an immune response to tick-borne encephalitis virus or Langat virus in a subject, involving administering to the subject such a pharmaceutical composition. In various examples, the subject does not have but is at risk of developing infection by tick-borne encephalitis virus or Langat virus. In other examples, the subject is infected with tick-borne encephalitis virus or Langat virus.

The invention further includes replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses including a flavivirus genome including one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein the flavivirus genome includes yellow fever virus sequences in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis virus or a Langat virus, and sequences encoding the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the flavivirus genome include a hybrid of sequences encoding yellow fever virus and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequences, or a variant thereof. In various examples, the sequences encoding the capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence of the flavivirus genome include yellow fever virus sequences in the 5′ region and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences in the 3′ region.

Further, the invention includes replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses including a flavivirus genome including one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein the flavivirus genome includes West Nile virus sequences in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus, and the sequences encoding the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the flavivirus genome include sequences encoding a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence, or a variant thereof.

In addition, the invention includes replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses including a flavivirus genome including one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein any capsid (C) and non-structural (NS) proteins in the flavivirus genome are from Langat virus and any pre-membrane (prM) and envelope (E) proteins are from a tick-borne encephalitis virus.

By “replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus” or “PIV” is meant a flavivirus that is replication-deficient due to a deletion or mutation in the flavivirus genome. The deletion or mutation can be, for example, a deletion of a large sequence, such as most of the capsid protein, as described herein (with the cyclization sequence remaining; see below). In other examples, sequences encoding different proteins (e.g., prM, E, NS1, NS3, and/or NS5; see below) or combinations of proteins (e.g., prM-E or C-prM-E) are deleted. This type of deletion may be advantageous if the PIV is to be used a vector to deliver a heterologous immunogen, as the deletion can permit insertion of sequences that may be, for example, at least up to the size of the deleted sequence. In other examples, the mutation can be, for example, a point mutation, provided that it results in replication deficiency, as discussed above. Because of the deletion or mutation, the genome does not encode all proteins necessary to produce a full flavivirus particle. The missing sequences can be provided in trans by a complementing cell line that is engineered to express the missing sequence (e.g., by use of a replicon; s-PIV; see below), or by co-expression of two replication-deficient genomes in the same cell, where the two replication-deficient genomes, when considered together, encode all proteins necessary for production (d-PIV system; see below).

Upon introduction into cells that do not express complementing proteins, the genomes replicate and, in some instances, generate “virus-like particles,” which are released from the cells and are able to leave the cells and be immunogenic, but cannot infect other cells and lead to the generation of further particles. For example, in the case of a PIV including a deletion in capsid protein encoding sequences, after infection of cells that do not express capsid, VLPs including prM-E proteins are released from the cells. Because of the lack of capsid protein, the VLPs lack capsid and a nucleic acid genome. In the case of the d-PIV approach, production of further PIVs is possible in cells that are infected with two PIVs that complement each other with respect to the production of all required proteins (see below).

The invention provides several advantages. For example, the PIV vectors and PIVs of the invention are highly attenuated and highly efficacious after one-to-two doses, providing durable immunity. Further, unlike inactivated vaccines, PIVs mimic whole virus infection, which can result in increased efficacy due to the induction of robust B- and T-cell responses, higher durability of immunity, and decreased dose requirements. In addition, similar to whole viruses, PIV vaccines target antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells, stimulate toll-like receptors (TLRs), and induce balanced Th1/Th2 immunity. PIV constructs have also been shown to grow to high titers in substrate cells, with little or no CPE, allowing for high-yield manufacture, optionally employing multiple harvests and/or expansion of infected substrate cells. Further, the PIV vectors of the invention provide an option for developing vaccines against non-flavivirus pathogens for which no vaccines are currently available.

Other features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description, the drawings, and the claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of single component PIV (s-PIV) technology.

FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of two-component PIV (d-PIV) technology.

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a general experimental design for testing immunogenicity and efficacy of PIVs in mice.

FIG. 4 is a graph comparing the humoral immune response induced by PIV-WN (RV-WN) with that of YF/WN LAV (CV-WN) in mice.

FIG. 5 is a series of graphs showing the results of challenging hamsters immunized with PIV-YF (RV-YF), YF17D, PIV-WN (RV-WN), and YF/WN LAV (CVWN) with hamster-adapted Asibi (PIV-YF and YF17D vaccinees) and wild type WN-NY99 (PIV-WN and YF/WN LAV vaccinees).

FIG. 6 is a table showing YF/TBE and YF/LGT virus titers and plaque morphology obtained with the indicated chimeric flaviviruses.

FIG. 7 is a table showing WN/TBE PIV titers and examples of immunofluorescence of cells containing the indicated PIVs.

FIG. 8 is a set of graphs showing the replication kinetics of YF/TBE LAV and PIV-WN/TBE in Vero and BHK cell lines (CV-Hypr=YF/Hypr LAV; CV-LGT=YF/LGT LAV; RV-WN/TBEV=PIV-WN/TBEV).

FIG. 9 is a series of graphs showing survival of mice inoculated IC with PIV-TBE and YF/TBE LAV constructs in a neurovirulence test (3.5 week old ICR mice; RV-WN/Hypr=PIV-WN/TBE(Hypr); CV-Hypr+YF/TBE(Hypr) LAV; CV-LGT=YF/LGT LAV).

FIG. 10 is a graph showing survival of mice inoculated IP with PIV-WN/TBE(Hypr) (RV-WN/Hypr), YF/TBE(Hypr) LAV (CV-Hypr), and YF/LGT LAV (CV-LGT) constructs and YF17D in a neuroinvasiveness test (3.5 week old ICR mice).

FIG. 11 is a series of graphs illustrating morbidity in mice measured by dynamics of body weight loss after TBE virus challenge, for groups immunized with S-PIV-TBE candidates (upper left panel), YF/TBE and YF/LGT chimeric viruses (upper right panel), and controls (YF 17D, human killed TBE vaccine, and mock; bottom panel).

FIG. 12 is a schematic representation of PIV constructs expressing rabies virus G protein, as well as illustration of packaging of the constructs to make pseudoinfectious virus and immunization.

FIG. 13 is a schematic representation of insertion designs resulting in viable/expressing constructs (exemplified by rabies G).

FIG. 14 is series of images showing immunofluorescence analysis and graphs showing growth curves of cells transfected with the indicated PIV-WN constructs (ΔC-Rabies G, ΔPrM-E-Rabies G, and ΔC-PrM-E-Rabies G).

FIG. 15 is a series of images showing immunofluorescence analysis of RabG expressed on the plasma membranes of Vero cells transfected with the indicated PIV constructs (ΔC-Rabies G, ΔPrM-E-Rabies G, and ΔC-PrM-E-Rabies G).

FIG. 16 is a schematic illustration of a PIV-WN-rabies G construct and a series of images showing that this construct spreads in helper cells, but not in naïve cells.

FIG. 17 is a series of graphs showing stability of the rabies G protein gene in PIV-WN vectors.

FIG. 18 is a set of images showing a comparison of spread of single-component vs. two-component PIV-WN-rabies G variants in Vero cells.

FIG. 19 is a set of immunofluorescence images showing expression of full-length RSV F protein (strain A2) by the ΔprM-E component of d-PIV-WN in helper cells after transfection.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The invention provides replication-defective or deficient pseudoinfectious virus (PIV) vectors including flavivirus sequences, which can be used in methods for inducing immunity against heterologous pathogen, cancer, and allergy-related immunogens inserted into the vectors as well as, optionally, the vectors themselves. The invention also includes compositions including combinations of PIVs and/or PIV vectors, as described herein, and methods of using such compositions to induce immune responses against inserted immunogen sequences and/or sequences of the PIVs themselves. Further, the invention includes particular PIVs and live, attenuated chimeric flaviviruses including tick-borne encephalitis virus sequences, and related vectors, compositions, and methods of use. The PIV vectors, PIVs, live attenuated chimeric flaviviruses, compositions, and methods of the invention are described further below.

PIV Vectors and PIVs

The PIV vectors and PIVs of the invention can be based on the single- or two-component PIVs described above (also see WO 2007/098267 and WO 2008/137163). Thus, for example, in the case of single component PIVs, the PIV vectors and PIVs can include a genome including a large deletion in capsid protein encoding sequences and be produced in a complementing cell line that produces capsid protein in trans (single component; FIG. 1 and FIG. 12). According to this approach, most of the capsid-encoding region is deleted, which prevents the PIV genome from producing infectious progeny in normal cell lines (i.e., cell lines not expressing capsid sequences) and vaccinated subjects. The capsid deletion typically does not disrupt RNA sequences required for genome cyclization (i.e., the sequence encoding amino acids in the region of positions 1-26), and/or the prM sequence required for maturation of prM to M. In specific examples, the deleted sequences correspond to those encoding amino acids 26-100, 26-93, 31-100, or 31-93 of the C protein.

Single component PIV vectors and PIVs can be propagated in cell lines that express either C or a C-prM-E cassette, where they replicate to high levels. Exemplary cell lines that can be used for expression of single component PIV vectors and PIVs include BHK-21 (e.g., ATCC CCL-10), Vero (e.g., ATCC CCL-81), C7/10, and other cells of vertebrate or mosquito origin. The C or C-prM-E cassette can be expressed in such cells by use of a viral vector-derived replicon, such as an alphavirus replicon (e.g., a replicon based on Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus (VEEV), Sindbis virus, Semliki Forest virus (SFV), Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEEV), Western Equine Encephalitis virus (WEEV), or Ross River virus). To decrease the possibility of productive recombination between the PIV vectors/PIVs and complementing sequences, the sequences in the replicons (encoding C, prM, and/or E) can include nucleotide mutations. For example, sequences encoding a complementing C protein can include an unnatural cyclization sequence. The mutations can result from codon optimization, which can provide an additional benefit with respect to PIV yield. Further, in the case of complementing cells expressing C protein sequences (and not a C-prM-E cassette), it may be beneficial to include an anchoring sequence at the carboxy terminus of the C protein including, for example, about 20 amino acids of prM (see, e.g., WO 2007/098267).

The PIV vectors and PIVs of the invention can also be based on the two-component genome technology described above. This technology employs two partial genome constructs, each of which is deficient in expression of at least one protein required for productive replication (capsid or prM/E) but, when present in the same cell, result in the production of all components necessary to make a PIV. Thus, in one example of the two-component genome technology, the first component includes a large deletion of C, as described above in reference to single component PIVs, and the second component includes a deletion of prM and E (FIG. 2 and FIG. 12). In another example, the first component includes a deletion of C, prM, and E, and the second component includes a deletion of NS1 (FIG. 12). Both components can include cis-acting promoter elements required for RNA replication and a complete set of non-structural proteins, which form the replicative enzyme complex. Thus, both defective genomes can include a 5′-untranslated region and at least about 60 nucleotides (Element 1) of the following, natural protein-coding sequence, which comprises an amino-terminal fragment of the capsid protein. This sequence can be followed by a protease cleavage sequence such as, for example, a ubiquitine or foot-and-mouth disease virus (FAMDV)-specific 2A protease sequence, which can be fused with either capsid or envelope (prM-E) coding sequences. Further, artificial, codon optimized sequences can be used to exclude the possibility of recombination between the two defective viral genomes, which could lead to formation of replication-competent viruses (see, e.g., WO 2008/137163). Use of the two-component genome approach does not require the development of cell lines expressing complementing genomes, such as the cells transformed with replicons, as discussed above in reference to the single component PIV approach. Exemplary cell lines that can be used in the two-component genome approach include Vero (e.g., ATCC CCL-81), BHK-21 (e.g., ATCC CCL-10), C7/10, and other cells of vertebrate or mosquito origin.

Additional examples of d-PIV approaches that can be used in the invention are based on use of complementing genomes including deletions in NS3 or NS5 sequences. A deletion in, e.g., NS1, NS3, or NS5 proteins can be used as long as several hundred amino acids in the ORF, removing the entire chosen protein sequence, or as short as 1 amino acid inactivating protein enzymatic activity (e.g., NS5 RNA polymerase activity, NS3 helicase activity, etc.). Alternatively, point amino acid changes (as few as 1 amino acid mutation, or optionally more mutations) can be introduced into any NS protein, inactivating enzymatic activity. In addition, several ANS deletions can be combined in one helper molecule. The same heterologous gene, i.e., expressed by the first d-PIV component, can be expressed in place or in combination with the NS deletion(s) in the second component, increasing the amount of expressed immunogen. Notably, the insertion capacity of the helper will increase proportionally to the size of NS deletion(s). Alternatively, a different foreign immunogen(s) can be inserted in place of deletion(s) of the helper to produce multivalent vaccines.

Further, additional approaches that can be used in making PIV vectors and PIVs for use in the present invention are described, for example, in WO 99/28487, WO 03/046189, WO 2004/108936, US 2004/0265338, US 2007/0249032, and U.S. Pat. No. 7,332,322.

The PIV vectors and PIVs of the invention can be comprised of sequences from a single flavivirus type (e.g., tick-borne encephalitis (TBE, e.g., strain Hypr), Langat (LGT), yellow fever (e.g., YF17D), West Nile, Japanese encephalitis, dengue (serotype 1-4), St. Louis encephalitis, Kunjin, Rocio encephalitis, Ilheus, Central European encephalitis, Siberian encephalitis, Russian Spring-Summer encephalitis, Kyasanur Forest Disease, Omsk Hemorrhagic fever, Louping ill, Powassan, Negishi, Absettarov, Hansalova, and Apoi viruses), or can comprise sequences from two or more different flaviviruses. Sequences of some strains of these viruses are readily available from generally accessible sequence databases; sequences of other strains can be easily determined by methods well known in the art. In the case of PIV vectors and PIVs including sequences of more than one flavivirus, the sequences can be those of a chimeric flavivirus, as described above (also see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 6,962,708; U.S. Pat. No. 6,696,281; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,184,024). In certain examples, the chimeras include pre-membrane and envelope sequences from one flavivirus (such as a flavivirus to which immunity may be desired), and capsid and non-structural sequences from a second, different flavivirus. In one specific example, the second flavivirus is a yellow fever virus, such as the vaccine strain YF17D. Other examples include the YF/TBE, YF/LGT, WN/TBE, and WN/LGT chimeras described below. Another example is an LGT/TBE chimera based on LGT virus backbone containing TBE virus prM-E proteins. A PIV vaccine based on this genetic background would have an advantage, because LGT replicates very efficiently in vitro and is highly attenuated and immunogenic for humans. Thus, a chimeric LGT/TBE PIV vaccine is expected to provide a robust specific immune response in humans against TBE, particularly due to inclusion of TBE prM-E genes.

Vectors of the invention can be based on PIV constructs or live, attenuated chimeric flaviviruses as described herein (in particular, YF/TBE, YF/LGT, WN/TBE, and WN/LGT; see below). Use of PIV constructs as vectors provides particular advantages in certain circumstances, because these constructs by necessity include large deletions, which render the constructs more amenable to accommodation of insertions that are at least up to the size of the deleted sequences, without there being a loss in replication efficiency. Thus, PIV vectors in general can comprise very small insertions (e.g., in the range 6-10, 11-20, 21-100, 101-500, or more amino acid residues combined with the ΔC deletion or other deletions), as well as relatively large insertions or insertions of intermediate size (e.g., in the range 501-1000, 1001-1700, 1701-3000, or 3001-4000 or more residues). In contrast, in certain examples, it may be advantageous to express relatively short sequences in live attenuated viruses, particularly if the insertions are made in the absence of a corresponding deletion. Additional information concerning insertion sites that can be used in the invention is provided below. In addition, as discussed further below, expression of non-flavivirus immunogens in PIVs and chimeric flaviviruses of the invention can result in dual vaccines that elicit protective immunity against both a flavivirus vector virus pathogen and a target heterologous immunogen (e.g., a pathogen (such as a bacterial, viral, parasite, or fungal pathogen), cancer, or allergy-related immunogen).

As discussed above, the PIV vectors and PIVs of the invention can comprise sequences of chimeric flaviviruses, for example, chimeric flaviviruses including pre-membrane and envelope sequences of a first flavivirus (e.g., a flavivirus to which immunity is sought), and capsid and non-structural sequences of a second, different flavivirus, such as a yellow fever virus (e.g., YF17D; see above and also U.S. Pat. No. 6,962,708; U.S. Pat. No. 6,696,281; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,184,024). Further, chimeric flaviviruses of the invention, used as a source for constructing PIVs, or as vaccines/vaccine vectors per se, can optionally include one or more specific attenuating mutations (e.g., E protein mutations, prM protein mutations, deletions in the C protein, and/or deletions in the 3′UTR), such as any of those described in WO 2006/116182. For example, the C protein or 3′UTR deletions can be directly applied to YF/TBE or YF/LGT chimeras. Similar deletions can be designed and introduced in other chimeric LAV candidates such as based on LGT/TBE, WN/TBE, and WN/LGT genomes. With respect to E protein mutations, attenuating mutations similar to those described for YF/WN chimera in WO 2006/116182 can be designed, e.g., based on the knowledge of crystal structure of the E protein (Rey et al., Nature 375(6529):291-298, 1995), and employed. Further, additional examples of attenuating E protein mutations described for TBE virus and other flaviviruses are provided in Table 9. These can be similarly introduced into chimeric vaccine candidates.

The invention also provides new, particular chimeric flaviviruses, which can be used as a basis for the design of PIV vectors and PIVs, as live attenuated chimeric flavivirus vectors, and as vaccines against the source(s) of the pre-membrane and envelope components of the chimeras. These chimeras include tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus or related prM-E sequences. Thus, the chimeras can include prM-E sequences from, for example, the Hypr strain of TBE or Langat (LGT) virus. Capsid and non-structural proteins of the chimeras can include those from yellow fever virus (e.g., YF17D) or West Nile virus (e.g., NY99).

A central feature of these exemplary YF/TBE, YF/LGT, WN/TBE, and WN/LGT chimeras is the signal sequence between the capsid and prM proteins. As is shown in the Examples, below, we have found that, in the case of YF-based PIV chimeras, it is advantageous to use a signal sequence comprising yellow fever and TBE sequences (see below). In one example, the signal sequence includes yellow fever sequences in the amino terminal region (e.g., SHDVLTVQFLIL) and TBE sequences in the carboxy terminal region (e.g., GMLGMTIA), resulting in the sequence SHDVLTVQFLILGMLGMTIA. We have also found that, in the case of WN-based PIV chimeras, it is advantageous to use a signal sequence comprising TBE sequences (e.g., GGTDWMSWLLVIGMLGMTIA). The invention thus includes YF/TBE, YF/LGT, WN/TBE, and WN/LGT chimeras, both PIVs and LAVs, which include the above-noted signal sequences, or variants thereof having, e.g., 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, or 4-5 amino acid substitutions, deletions, or insertions, which do not substantially interfere with processing at the signal sequence. In various examples, the substitutions are “conservative substitutions,” which are characterized by replacement of one amino acid residue with another, biologically similar residue. Examples of conservative substitutions include the substitution of one hydrophobic residue such as isoleucine, valine, leucine, or methionine for another, or the substitution of one polar residue for another, such as between arginine and lysine, between glutamic and aspartic acids, or between glutamine and asparagine and the like. Additional information concerning these chimeras is provided below, in the Examples.

Insertion Sites

Sequences encoding immunogens can be inserted at one or more different sites within the vectors of the invention. Relatively short peptides can be delivered on the surface of PIV or LAV glycoproteins (e.g., prM, E, and/or NS1 proteins) and/or in the context of other proteins (to induce predominantly B-cell and T-cell responses, respectively). Other inserts, including larger portions of foreign proteins, as well as complete proteins, can be expressed intergenically, at the N- and C-termini of the polyprotein, or bicistronically (e.g., within the ORF under an IRES or in the 3′UTR under an IRES; see, e.g., WO 02/102828, WO 2008/036146, WO 2008/094674, WO 2008/100464, WO 2008/115314, and below for further details). In PIV constructs, there is an additional option of inserting a foreign amino acid sequence directly in place of introduced deletion(s). Insertions can be made in, for example, ΔC, ΔprM-E, ΔC-prM-E, ΔNS1, ΔNS3, and ΔNS5. Thus, in one example, in the case of s-PIVs and the ΔC component of d-PIVs, immunogen-encoding sequences can be inserted in place of deleted capsid sequences. Immunogen-encoding sequences can also, optionally, be inserted in place of deleted prM-E sequences in the ΔprM-E component of d-PIVs. In another example, the sequences are inserted in place of or combined with deleted sequences in ΔC-prM-E constructs. Examples of such insertions are provided in the Examples section, below.

In the case of making insertions into PIV deletions, the insertions can be made with a few (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) additional vector-specific residues at the N- and/or C-termini of the foreign immunogen, if the sequence is simply fused in-frame (e.g., ˜20 first a.a. and a few last residues of the C protein if the sequence replaces the ΔC deletion), or without, if the foreign immunogen is flanked by appropriate elements well known in the field (e.g., viral protease cleavage sites; cellular protease cleavage sites, such as signalase, furin, etc.; autoprotease; termination codon; and/or IRES elements).

If a protein is expressed outside of the continuous viral open reading frame (ORF), e.g., if vector and non-vector sequences are separated by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES), cytoplasmic expression of the product can be achieved or the product can be directed towards the secretory pathway by using appropriate signal/anchor segments, as desired. If the protein is expressed within the vector ORF, important considerations include cleavage of the foreign protein from the nascent polyprotein sequence, and maintaining correct topology of the foreign protein and all viral proteins (to ensure vector viability) relative to the ER membrane, e.g., translocation of secreted proteins into the ER lumen, or keeping cytoplasmic proteins or membrane-associated proteins in the cytoplasm/in association with the ER membrane.

In more detail, the above-described approaches to making insertions can employ the use of, for instance, appropriate vector-derived, insert-derived, or unrelated signal and anchor sequencess included at the N and C termini of glycoprotein inserts. Standard autoproteases, such as FMDV 2A autoprotease (˜20 amino acids) or ubiquitin (gene ˜500 nt), or flanking viral NS2B/NS3 protease cleavage sites can be used to direct cleavage of an expressed product from a growing polypeptide chain, to release a foreign protein from a vector polyprotein, and to ensure viability of the construct. Optionally, growth of the polyprotein chain can be terminated by using a termination codon, e.g., following a foreign gene insert, and synthesis of the remaining proteins in the constructs can be re-initiated by incorporation of an IRES element, e.g., the encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) IRES commonly used in the field of RNA virus vectors. Viable recombinants can be recovered from helper cells (or regular cells for d-PIV versions). Optionally, backbone PIV sequences can be rearranged, e.g., if the latter results in more efficient expression of a foreign gene. For example, a gene rearrangement has been applied to TBE virus, in which the prM-E genes were moved to the 3′ end of the genome under the control of an IRES (Orlinger et al., J. Virol. 80:12197-12208, 2006). Translocation of prM-E or any other genes can be applied to PIV flavivirus vaccine candidates and expression vectors, according to the invention.

Additional details concerning different insertion sites that can be used in the invention are as follows (also see WO 02/102828, WO 2008/036146, WO 2008/094674, WO 2008/100464, WO 2008/115314, as noted above). Peptide sequences can be inserted within the envelope protein, which is the principle target for neutralizing antibodies. The sequences can be inserted into the envelope in, for example, positions corresponding to amino acid positions 59, 207, 231, 277, 287, 340, and/or 436 of the Japanese encephalitis virus envelope protein (see, e.g., WO 2008/115314 and WO 02/102828). To identify the corresponding loci in different flaviviruses, the flavivirus sequences are aligned with that of Japanese encephalitis virus. As there may not be an exact match, it should be understood that, in non-JE viruses, the site of insertion may vary by, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 amino acids, in either direction. Further, given the identification of such sites as being permissive in JE, they can also vary in JE by, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 amino acids, in either direction. Additional permissive sites can be identified using methods such as transposon mutagenesis (see, e.g., WO 02/102828 and WO 2008/036146). The insertions can be made at the indicated amino acids by insertion just C-terminal to the indicated amino acids (i.e., between amino acids 51-52, 207-208, 231-232, 277-278, 287-288, 340-341, and 436-437), or in place of short deletions (e.g., deletions of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 amino acids) beginning at the indicated amino acids (or within 1-5 positions thereof, in either direction).

In addition to the envelope protein, insertions can be made into other virus proteins including, for example, the membrane/pre-membrane protein and NS1 (see, e.g., WO 2008/036146). For example, insertions can be made into a sequence preceding the capsid/pre-membrane cleavage site (at, e.g., −4, −2, or −1) or within the first 50 amino acids of the pre-membrane protein (e.g., at position 26), and/or between amino acids 236 and 237 of NS1 (or in regions surrounding the indicated sequences, as described above). In other examples, insertions can be made intergenically. For example, an insertion can be made between E and NS1 proteins and/or between NS2B and NS3 proteins (see, e.g., WO 2008/100464). In one example of an intergenic insertion, the inserted sequence can be fused with the C-terminus of the E protein of the vector, after the C-terminal signal/anchor sequence of the E protein, and the insertion can include a C-terminal anchor/signal sequence, which is fused with vector NS1 sequences. In another example of an intergenic insertion, the inserted sequences, with flanking protease cleavage sites (e.g., YF17D cleavage sites), can be inserted into a unique restriction site introduced at the NS2B/NS3 junction (WO 2008/100464).

In other examples, a sequence can be inserted in the context of an internal ribosome entry site (IRES, e.g., an IRES derived from encephalomyocarditis virus; EMCV), as noted above, such as inserted in the 3′-untranslated region (WO 2008/094674). In one example of such a vector, employing, for example, yellow fever virus sequences, an IRES-immunogen cassette can be inserted into a multiple cloning site engineered into the 3′-untranslated region of the vector, e.g., in a deletion (e.g., a 136 nucleotide deletion in the case of a yellow fever virus-based example) after the polyprotein stop codon (WO 2008/094674).

Details concerning the insertion of rabies virus G protein and full-length respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) F protein into s-PIV and d-PIV vectors of the invention are provided below in Example 3. The information provided in Example 3 can be applied in the context of other vectors and immunogens described herein.

Immunogens

PIVs (s-PIVs and d-PIVs) based on flavivirus sequences and live, attenuated chimeric flaviviruses (e.g., YF/TBE, YF/LGT, WN/TBE, and WN/LGT), as described above, can be used in the invention to deliver foreign (e.g., non-flavivirus) pathogen (e.g., viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens), cancer, and allergy-related immunogens. As discussed further below, in certain examples, it may be advantageous to target several pathogens occupying the same ecological niche, in a particular geographical region. Specific, non-limiting examples of such immunogens are provided as follows.

In addition to TBE virus, ticks are known to transmit another major disease, Lyme disease. Thus, in a first example, PIVs of the invention, such as PIVs including TBE/LGT sequences, as well as chimeric flaviviruses including TBE sequences (e.g., YF/TBE, YF/LGT, WN/TBE, LGT/TBE, and WN/LGT; in all instances where “TBE” is indicated, this includes the option of using the Hypr strain), can be used as vectors to deliver protective immunogens of the causative agent of Lyme disease (tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi). This combination, targeting both infectious agents (TBE and B. burgdorferi) is advantageous, because TBE and Lyme disease are both tick-borne diseases. The PIV approaches can be applied to chimeras (e.g., YF/TBE, YF/LGT, to WN/TBE, or WN/LGT), according to the invention, as well as to non-chimeric TBE and LGT viruses. An exemplary immunogen from B. burgdorferi that can be used in the invention is OspA (Gipson et al., Vaccine 21:3875-3884, 2003). Optionally, to increase safety and/or immunogenicity, OspA can be mutated to reduce chances of autoimmune responses and/or to eliminate sites for unwanted post-translational modification in vertebrate animal cells, such as N-linked glycosylation, which may affect immunogenicity of the expression product. Mutations that decrease autoimmunity can include, e.g., those described by Willett et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101:1303-1308, 2004. In one example, FTK-OspA, a putative cross-reactive T cell epitope, Bb OSA₁₆₅₋₁₇₃ (YVLEGTLTA) is altered to resemble the corresponding peptide sequence of Borrelia afzelli (FTLEGKVAN). In FTK-OspA, the corresponding sequence is FTLEGKLTA.

The sequence of OspA is as follows:

1 mkkyllgigl ilaliackqn vssldeknsv svdlpgemkv lvskeknkdg kydliatvdk 61 lelkgtsdkn ngsgvlegvk adkskvklti sddlgqttle vfkedgktlv skkvtskdks 121 steekfnekg evsekiitra dgtrleytgi ksdgsgkake vlkgyvlegt ltaekttlvv 181 kegtvtlskn isksgevsve lndtdssaat kktaawnsgt stltitvnsk ktkdlvftke 241 ntitvqqyds ngtklegsav eitkldeikn alk The full-length sequence and/or immunogenic fragments of the full-length sequence can be used in the present invention. Exemplary fragments can include one or more of domains 1 (amino acids 34-41), 2 (amino acids 65-75), 3 (amino acids 190-220), and 4 (amino acids 250-270) (Jiang et al., Clin. Diag. Lab. Immun. 1(4):406-412, 1994). Thus, for example, a peptide comprising any one (or more) of the following sequences (which include sequence variations that can be included in the sequence listed above, in any combination) can be delivered: LPGE/GM/IK/T/GVL; GTSDKN/S/DNGSGV/T; N/H/EIS/P/L/A/SK/NSGEV/IS/TV/AE/ALN/DDT/SD/NS/TS/TA/Q/RATKKTA/GA/K/TWN/DS/AG/N/KT; SN/AGTK/NLEGS/N/K/TAVEIT/KK/TLD/KEI/LKN.

In addition to B. burgdorferi immunogens, tick saliva proteins, such as 64TRP, Isac, and Salp20, can be expressed, e.g., to generate a vaccine candidate of trivalent-specificity (TBE+Lyme disease+ticks). Alternatively, tick saliva proteins can be expressed instead of B. burgdorferi immunogens in TBE sequence-containing vectors. In to addition, there are many other candidate tick saliva proteins that can be used for tick vector vaccine development according to the invention (Francischetti et al., Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35:1142-1161, 2005). One or more of these immunogens can be expressed in s-PIV-TBE. However, d-PIV-TBE may also be selected, because of its large insertion capacity. In addition to PIV-TBE, other PIV vaccines can be used as vectors, e.g., to protect from Lyme disease and another flavivirus disease, such as West Nile virus. Expression of these immunogens can be evaluated in cell culture, and immunogenicity/protection examined in available animal models (e.g., as described in Gipson et al., Vaccine 21:3875-3884, 2003; Labuda et al., Pathog. 2(e27):0251-0259, 2006). Immunogens of other pathogens can be similarly expressed, in addition to Lyme disease and tick immunogens, with the purpose of making multivalent vaccine candidates. Exemplary tick saliva immunogens that can be used in the invention include the following:

64TRP (AF469170) MKAFFVLSLL STAALTNAAR AGRLGSDLDT FGRVHGNLYA GIERAGPRGY PGLTASIGGE VGARLGGRAG VGVSSYGYGY PSWGYPYGGY GGYGGYGGYG GYDQGFGSAY GGYPGYYGYY YPSGYGGGYG GSYGGSYGGS YTYPNVRASA GAAA Isac (AF270496) MRTAFTCALL AISFLGSPCS SSEDGLEQDT IVETTTQNLY ERHYRNHSGL CGAQYRNSSH AEAVYNCTLN HLPPVVNATW EGIRHRINKT IPQFVKLICN FTVAMPQEFY LVYMGSDGNS DFEEDKESTG TDEDSNTGSS AAAKVTEALI IEAEENCTAH ITGWTTETPT TLEPTTESQF EAIP Salp20 (EU008559) MRTALTCALL AISFLGSPCS SSEGGLEKDS RVETTTQNLY ERYYRKHPGL CGAQYRNSSH AEAVYNCTLS LLPLSVNTTW EGIRHRINKT IPEFVNLICN FTVAMPDQFY LVYMGSNGNS YSEEDEDGKT GSSAAVQVTE QLIIQAEENC TAHITGWTTE APTTLEPTTE TQFEAIS Additional details concerning the TBE-related PIVs and LAVs are provided in Example 2, below.

The invention further provides PIV and LAV-vectored vaccines against other non-flavivirus pathogens, including vaccines having dual action, eliciting protective immunity against both flavivirus (as specified by the vector envelope proteins) and non-flavivirus pathogens (as specified by expressed immunologic determinant(s)). These are similar to the example of PIV-TBE-Lyme disease-tick vector vaccines described above. As mentioned above, such dual-action vaccines can be developed against a broad range of pathogens by expression of immunogens from, for example, viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens, and immunogens associated with cancer and allergy. As specific non-limiting examples, we describe herein the design and biological properties of PIV vectored-rabies and -respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidates constructed by expression of rabies virus G protein or full-length RSV F protein in place of or in combination with various deletions in one- and two-component PIV vectors (see Example 3, below).

As is demonstrated in the Examples, below, s-PIV constructs may be advantageously used to stably deliver relatively short foreign immunogens (similar to Lyme disease agent OspA protein and tick saliva proteins), because insertions are combined with a relatively short ΔC deletion. Two-component PIV vectors may be advantageously used to stably express relatively large immunogens, such as rabies G protein and RSV F, as the insertions in such vectors are combined with, for example, large ΔprM-E, ΔC-prM-E, and/or ΔNS1 deletions. Some of the d-PIV components can be manufactured and used as vaccines individually, for instance, the PIV-RSV F construct described below containing a ΔC-prM-E deletion. In this case, the vaccine induces an immune response (e.g., neutralizing antibodies) predominantly against the expressed protein, but not against the flavivirus vector virus pathogen. In other examples of the invention, dual immunity is obtained by having immunity induced both to vector and insert components. Additionally, because of the large insertion capacity of PIV vectors, and the option of using two-component genomes, PIV vectors offer the opportunity to target several non-flavivirus pathogens simultaneously, e.g., by expressing foreign immunogens from two different non-flavivirus pathogens in the two components of a d-PIV.

In addition to the RSV F protein, rabies G protein, Lyme disease protective immunogens, and tick saliva proteins, as examples of foreign immunogens described above, other foreign immunogens can be expressed to target respective diseases including, for example, influenza virus type A and B immunogens. In these examples, a to few short epitopes and/or whole genes of viral particle proteins can be used, such as the M2, HA, and NA genes of influenza A, and/or the NB or BM2 genes of influenza B. Shorter fragments of M2, NB, and BM2, corresponding for instance to M2e, the extracellular fragment of M2, can also be used. In addition, fragments of the HA gene, including epitopes identified as HA0 (23 amino acids in length, corresponding to the cleavage site in HA) can be used. Specific examples of influenza-related sequences that can be used in the invention include PAKLLKERGFFGAIAGFLE (HA0), PAKLLKERGFFGAIAGFLEGSGC (HA0), NNATFNYTNVNPISHIRGS (NBe), MSLLTEVETPIRNEWGCRCNDSSD (M2e), MSLLTEVETPTRNEWECRCSDSSD (M2e), MSLLTEVETLTRNGWGCRCSDSSD (M2e), EVETPTRN (M2e), SLLTEVETPIRNEWGCRCNDSSD (M2e), and SLLTEVETPIRNEWGCR (M2e). Additional M2e sequences that can be used in the invention include sequences from the extracellular domain of BM2 protein of influenza B (consensus MLEPFQ, e.g., LEPFQILSISGC), and the M2e peptide from the H5N1 avian flu (MSLLTEVETLTRNGWGCRCSDSSD).

Other examples of pathogen immunogens that can be delivered in the vectors of the invention include codon-optimized SIV or HIV gag (55 kDa), gp120, gp160, Sly mac239-rev/tat/nef genes or analogs from HIV, and other HIV immunogens; immunogens from HPV viruses, such as HPV16, HPV18, etc., e.g., the capsid protein L1 which self-assembles into HPV-like particles, the capsid protein L2 or its immunodominant portions (e.g., amino acids 1-200, 1-88, or 17-36), the E6 and E7 proteins which are involved in transforming and immortalizing mammalian cells fused together and appropriately mutated (fusion of the two genes creates a fusion protein, referred to as E6E7Rb⁻, that is about 10-fold less capable of transforming fibroblasts, and mutations of the E7 component at 2 residues renders the resulting fusion protein mutant incapable of inducing transformation (Boursnell et al., Vaccine 14:1485-1494, 1996). Other immunogens include protective immunogens from HCV, CMV, HSV2, viruses, malaria parasite, Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing tuberculosis, C. difficile, and other nosocomial infections, that are known in the art, as well as fungal pathogens, cancer immunogens, and proteins associated with allergy that can be used as vaccine targets.

Foreign immunogen inserts of the invention can be modified in various ways. For instance, codon optimization is used to increase the level of expression and eliminate long repeats in nucleotide sequences to increase insert stability in the RNA genome of PIV vectors. Immunogenicity can be increased by chimerization of proteins with immunostimulatory moieties well known in the art, such as TLR agonists, stimulatory cytokines, components of complement, heat-shock proteins, etc. (e.g., reviewed in “Immunopotentiators in Modern Vaccines,” Schijns and O'Hagan Eds., 2006, Elsevier Academic Press: Amsterdam, Boston).

With respect to construction of dual vaccines against rabies and other flavivirus diseases, other combinations, such as TBE+rabies, YF+rabies, etc., can be of interest both for human and veterinary use in corresponding geographical regions, and thus can be similarly generated. Possible designs of expression constructs are not limited to those described herein. For example deletions and insertions can be modified, genetic elements can be rearranged, or other genetic elements (e.g. non-flavivirus, non-rabies signals for secretion, intracellular transport determinants, inclusion of or fusion with immunostimulatory moieties such as cytokines, TLR agonists such as flagellin, multimerization components such as leucine zipper, and peptides that increase the period of protein circulation in the blood) can be used to facilitate antigen presentation and increase immunogenicity. Further, such designs can be applied to s-PIV and d-PIV vaccine candidates based on vector genomes of other flaviviruses, and expressing immunogens of other pathogens, e.g., including but not limited to pathogens described in elsewhere herein.

Other examples of PIV and LAV vectors of the invention including combination vaccines such as DEN+Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and YF+CHIKV. CHIKV, an alphavirus, is endemic in Africa, South East Asia, Indian subcontinent and the Islands, and the Pacific Islands and shares ecological/geographical niches with YF and DEN1-4. It causes serious disease primarily associated with severe pain (arthritis, other symptoms similar to DEN) and long-lasting sequelae in the majority of patients (Simon et al., Med. Clin. North Am. 92:1323-1343, 2008; Seneviratne et al., J. Travel Med. 14:320-325, 2007). Other examples of PIV and LAV vectors of the invention include YF+Ebola or DEN+Ebola, which co-circulate in Africa.

Immunogens for the above-noted non-flavivirus pathogens, sequences of which are well known in the art, may include glycoprotein B or a pp 65/IEI fusion protein of CMV (Reap et al., Vaccine 25(42):7441-7449, 2007; and references therein), several TB proteins (reviewed in Skeiky et al., Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4(6):469-476, 2006), malaria parasite antigens such as RTS, S (a pre-erythrocytic circumsporozoite protein, CSP) and others (e.g., reviewed in Li et al., Vaccine 25(14):2567-2574, 2007), CHIKV envelope proteins E1 and E2 (or the C-E2-E1, E2-E1 cassettes), HCV structural proteins C-E1-E2 forming VLPs (Ezelle et al., J. Virol. 76(23):12325-12334, 2002) or other proteins to induce T-cell responses, Ebola virus glycoprotein GP (Yang et al., Virology 377(2):255-264, 2008).

In addition to the immunogens described above, the vectors described herein may include one or more immunogen(s) derived from or that direct an immune response against one or more viruses (e.g., viral target antigen(s)) including, for example, a dsDNA virus (e.g., adenovirus, herpesvirus, epstein-barr virus, herpes simplex type 1, herpes simplex type 2, human herpes virus simplex type 8, human cytomegalovirus, varicella-zoster virus, poxvirus); ssDNA virus (e.g., parvovirus, papillomavirus (e.g., E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, BPV1, BPV2, BPV3, BPV4, BPV5, and BPV6 (In Papillomavirus and Human Cancer, edited by H. Pfister (CRC Press, Inc. 1990)); Lancaster et al., Cancer Metast. Rev. pp. 6653-6664, 1987; Pfister et al., Adv. Cancer Res. 48:113-147, 1987)); dsRNA viruses (e.g., reovirus); (+)ssRNA viruses (e.g., picornavirus, coxsackie virus, hepatitis A virus, poliovirus, togavirus, rubella virus, flavivirus, hepatitis C virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, west Nile virus); (−)ssRNA viruses (e.g., orthomyxovirus, influenza virus, rhabdovirus, paramyxovirus, measles virus, mumps virus, parainfluenza virus, rhabdovirus, rabies virus); ssRNA-RT viruses (e.g., retrovirus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)); and dsDNA-RT viruses (e.g. hepadnavirus, hepatitis B). Immunogens may also be derived from other viruses not listed above but available to those of skill in the art.

With respect to HIV, immunogens may be selected from any HIV isolate. As is to well-known in the art, HIV isolates are now classified into discrete genetic subtypes. HIV-1 is known to comprise at least ten subtypes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, and K). HIV-2 is known to include at least five subtypes (A, B, C, D, and E). Subtype B has been associated with the HIV epidemic in homosexual men and intravenous drug users worldwide. Most HIV-1 immunogens, laboratory adapted isolates, reagents and mapped epitopes belong to subtype B. In sub-Saharan Africa, India, and China, areas where the incidence of new HIV infections is high, HIV-1 subtype B accounts for only a small minority of infections, and subtype HIV-1 C appears to be the most common infecting subtype. Thus, in certain embodiments, it may be desirable to select immunogens from HIV-1 subtypes B and/or C. It may be desirable to include immunogens from multiple HIV subtypes (e.g., HIV-1 subtypes B and C, HIV-2 subtypes A and B, or a combination of HIV-1 and HIV-2 subtypes) in a single immunological composition. Suitable HIV immunogens include ENV, GAG, POL, NEF, as well as variants, derivatives, and fusion proteins thereof, for example.

Immunogens may also be derived from or direct an immune response against one or more bacterial species (spp.) (e.g., bacterial target antigen(s)) including, for example, Bacillus spp. (e.g., Bacillus anthracis), Bordetella spp. (e.g., Bordetella pertussis), Borrelia spp. (e.g., Borrelia burgdorferi), Brucella spp. (e.g., Brucella abortus, Brucella canis, Brucella melitensis, Brucella suis), Campylobacter spp. (e.g., Campylobacter jejuni), Chlamydia spp. (e.g., Chlamydia pneumoniae, Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia trachomatis), Clostridium spp. (e.g., Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium difficile, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium tetani), Corynebacterium spp. (e.g., Corynebacterium diptheriae), Enterococcus spp. (e.g., Enterococcus faecalis, enterococcus faecum), Escherichia spp. (e.g., Escherichia coli), Francisella spp. (e.g., Francisella tularensis), Haemophilus spp. (e.g., Haemophilus influenza), Helicobacter spp. (e.g., Helicobacter pylori), Legionella spp. (e.g., Legionella pneumophila), Leptospira spp. (e.g., Leptospira interrogans), Listeria spp. (e.g., Listeria monocytogenes), Mycobacterium spp. (e.g., Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis), Mycoplasma spp. (e.g., Mycoplasma pneumoniae), Neisseria spp. (e.g., Neisseria gonorrhea, Neisseria meningitidis), Pseudomonas spp. (e.g., Pseudomonas aeruginosa), Rickettsia spp. (e.g., Rickettsia rickettsii), Salmonella spp. (e.g., Salmonella typhi, Salmonella typhinurium), Shigella spp. (e.g., Shigella sonnei), Staphylococcus spp. (e.g., Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, coagulase negative staphylococcus (e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 7,473,762)), Streptococcus spp. (e.g., Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyrogenes), Treponema spp. (e.g., Treponema pallidum), Vibrio spp. (e.g., Vibrio cholerae), and Yersinia spp. (Yersinia pestis). Immunogens may also be derived from or direct the immune response against other bacterial species not listed above but available to those of skill in the art.

Immunogens may also be derived from or direct an immune response against one or more parasitic organisms (spp.) (e.g., parasite target antigen(s)) including, for example, Ancylostoma spp. (e.g., A. duodenale), Anisakis spp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Balantidium coli, Cestoda spp., Cimicidae spp., Clonorchis sinensis, Dicrocoelium dendriticum, Dicrocoelium hospes, Diphyllobothrium latum, Dracunculus spp., Echinococcus spp. (e.g., E. granulosus, E. multilocularis), Entamoeba histolytica, Enterobius vermicularis, Fasciola spp. (e.g., F. hepatica, F. magna, F. gigantica, F. jacksoni), Fasciolopsis buski, Giardia spp. (Giardia lamblia), Gnathostoma spp., Hymenolepis spp. (e.g., H. nana, H. diminuta), Leishmania spp., Loa loa, Metorchis spp. (M. conjunctus, M. albidus), Necator americanus, Oestroidea spp. (e.g., botfly), Onchocercidae spp., Opisthorchis spp. (e.g., O. viverrini, O. felineus, O. guayaquilensis, and O. noverca), Plasmodium spp. (e.g., P. falciparum), Protofasciola robusta, Parafasciolopsis fasciomorphae, Paragonimus westermani, Schistosoma spp. (e.g., S. mansoni, S. japonicum, S. mekongi, S. haematobium), Spirometra erinaceieuropaei, Strongyloides stercoralis, Taenia spp. (e.g., T. saginata, T. solium), Toxocara spp. (e.g., T. canis, T. cati), Toxoplasma spp. (e.g., T. gondii), Trichobilharzia regenti, Trichinella spiralis, Trichuris trichiura, Trombiculidae spp., Trypanosoma spp., Tunga penetrans, and/or Wuchereria bancrofti. Immunogens may also be derived from or direct the immune response against other parasitic organisms not listed above but available to those of skill in the art.

Immunogens may be derived from or direct the immune response against tumor target antigens (e.g., tumor target antigens). The term tumor target antigen (TA) may include both tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) and tumor-specific antigens (TSAs), where a cancerous cell is the source of the antigen. A TA may be an antigen that is expressed on the surface of a tumor cell in higher amounts than is observed on normal cells or an antigen that is expressed on normal cells during fetal development. A TSA is typically an antigen that is unique to tumor cells and is not expressed on normal cells. TAs are typically classified into five categories according to their expression pattern, function, or genetic origin: cancer-testis (CT) antigens (i.e., MAGE, NY-ESO-1); melanocyte differentiation antigens (e.g., Melan A/MART-1, tyrosinase, gp100); mutational antigens (e.g., MUM-1, p53, CDK-4); overexpressed ‘self’ antigens (e.g., HER-2/neu, p53); and viral antigens (e.g., HPV, EBV). Suitable TAs include, for example, gp100 (Cox et al., Science 264:716-719, 1994), MART-1/Melan A (Kawakami et al., J. Exp. Med., 180:347-352, 1994), gp75 (TRP-1) (Wang et al., J. Exp. Med., 186:1131-1140, 1996), tyrosinase (Wolfe) et al., Eur. J. Immunol., 24:759-764, 1994), NY-ESO-1 (WO 98/14464; WO 99/18206), melanoma proteoglycan (Hellstrom et al., J. Immunol., 130:1467-1472, 1983), MAGE family antigens (e.g., MAGE-1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12; Van der Bruggen et al., Science 254:1643-1647, 1991; U.S. Pat. No. 6,235,525), BAGE family antigens (Boel et al., Immunity 2:167-175, 1995), GAGE family antigens (e.g., GAGE-1,2; Van den Eynde et al., J. Exp. Med. 182:689-698, 1995; U.S. Pat. No. 6,013,765), RAGE family antigens (e.g., RAGE-1; Gaugler et al., Immunogenetics 44:323-330, 1996; U.S. Pat. No. 5,939,526), N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V (Guilloux et al., J. Exp. Med. 183:1173-1183, 1996), p15 (Robbins et al., J. Immunol. 154:5944-5950, 1995), β-catenin (Robbins et al., J. Exp. Med., 183:1185-1192, 1996), MUM-1 (Coulie et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92:7976-7980, 1995), cyclin dependent kinase-4 (CDK4) (Wolfel et al., Science 269:1281-1284, 1995), p21-ras (Fossum et al., Int. J. Cancer 56:40-45, 1994), BCR-abl (Bocchia et al., Blood 85:2680-2684, 1995), p53 (Theobald et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92:11993-11997, 1995), p185 HER2/neu (erb-B1; Fisk et al., J. Exp. Med., 181:2109-2117, 1995), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) (Harris et al., Breast Cancer Res. Treat, 29:1-2, 1994), carcinoembryonic antigens (CEA) (Kwong et al., J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 85:982-990, 1995) U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,756,103; 5,274,087; 5,571,710; 6,071,716; 5,698,530; 6,045,802; EP 263933; EP 346710; and EP 784483; carcinoma-associated mutated mucins (e.g., MUC-1 gene products; Jerome et al., J. Immunol., 151:1654-1662, 1993); EBNA gene products of EBV (e.g., EBNA-1; Rickinson et al., Cancer Surveys 13:53-80, 1992); E7, E6 proteins of human papillomavirus (Ressing et al., J. Immunol. 154:5934-5943, 1995); prostate specific antigen (PSA; Xue et al., The Prostate 30:73-78, 1997); prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA; Israeli et al., Cancer Res. 54:1807-1811, 1994); idiotypic epitopes or antigens, for example, immunoglobulin idiotypes or T cell receptor idiotypes (Chen et al., J. Immunol. 153:4775-4787, 1994); KSA (U.S. Pat. No. 5,348,887), kinesin 2 (Dietz, et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 275(3):731-738, 2000), HIP-55, TGFβ-1 anti-apoptotic factor (Toomey et al., Br. J. Biomed. Sci. 58(3):177-183, 2001), tumor protein D52 (Bryne et al., Genomics 35:523-532, 1996), H₁FT, NY-BR-1 (WO 01/47959), NY-BR-62, NY-BR-75, NY-BR-85, NY-BR-87, and NY-BR-96 (Scanlan, M. Serologic and Bioinformatic Approaches to the Identification of Human Tumor Antigens, in Cancer Vaccines 2000, Cancer Research Institute, New York, N.Y.), and/or pancreatic cancer antigens (e.g., SEQ ID NOs: 1-288 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,473,531). Immunogens may also be derived from or direct the immune response against include TAs not listed above but available to one of skill in the art.

In addition to the specific immunogen sequences listed above, the invention also includes the use of analogs of the sequences. Such analogs include sequences that are, for example, at least 80%, 90%, 95%, or 99% identical to the reference sequences, or fragments thereof. The analogs also include fragments of the reference sequences that include, for example, one or more immunogenic epitopes of the sequences. Further, the analogs include truncations or expansions of the sequences (e.g., insertion of additional/repeat immunodominant/helper epitopes) by, e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11-20, etc., amino acids on either or both ends. Truncation may remove immunologically unimportant or interfering sequences, e.g., within known structural/immunologic domains, or between domains; or whole undesired domains can be deleted; such modifications can be in the ranges 21-30, 31-50, 51-100, 101-400, etc. amino acids. The ranges also include, e.g., 20-400, 30-100, and 50-100 amino acids.

Cocktails

The invention also includes compositions including mixtures of two or more PIVs and/or PIV vectors, as described herein. As discussed above, use of such mixtures or cocktails may be particularly advantageous when induction of immunity to more than one immunogen and/or pathogen is desired. This may be useful, for example, in vaccination against different flaviviruses that may be endemic to the region in which the vaccine recipient resides. This may also be useful in the context of administration of multiple immunogens against the same target.

Non-limiting examples of PIV cocktails included in the invention are those including PIV-JE+PIV-DEN, and PIV-YF+PIV-DEN. In both of these examples, the PIVs for either or both components can be single or dual component PIVs, as described above. In addition, in the case of the PIV-DEN, the PIV can include sequences of just one dengue serotype selected from the group consisting of dengue serotypes 1-4, or the cocktail can include PIVs expressing sequences from two, three, or all four of the serotypes. Further, the TBE/Borrelia burgdorferi/tick saliva protein (e.g., 64TRP, Isac, Salp20) vaccines described herein can be based on including the different immunogens within a single PIV or live attenuated flavivirus, or can be based on mixtures of PIVs (or LAVs), which each include one or more of the immunogens. The cocktails of the invention can be formulated as such or can be mixed just prior to administration.

Use, Formulation, and Administration

The invention includes the PIV vectors, PIVs, LAV vectors, and LAVs, as well as corresponding nucleic acid molecules, pharmaceutical or vaccine compositions, and methods of their use and preparation. The PIV vectors, PIVs, LAV vectors, and LAVs of the invention can be used, for example, in vaccination methods to induce an immune response to TBE or other flavivirus, and/or another expressed immunogen, as described herein. These methods can be prophylactic, in which case they are carried out on subjects (e.g., human subjects or other mammalian subjects) not having, but at risk of developing infection or disease caused by TBE or another flavivirus and/or a pathogen from which the other expressed immunogen is derived. The methods can also be therapeutic, in which they are carried out on subjects already having an infection by one or more of the relevant pathogens. Further, the viruses and vectors can be used individually or in combination with one another or other vaccines. The subjects treated according to the methods of the invention include humans, as well as non-human mammals (e.g., livestock, such as, cattle, pigs, horses, sheep, and goats, and domestic animals, including dogs and cats).

Formulation of the PIV vectors, PIVs, LAV vectors, and LAVs of the invention can be carried out using methods that are standard in the art. Numerous pharmaceutically acceptable solutions for use in vaccine preparation are well known and can readily be adapted for use in the present invention by those of skill in this art (see, e.g., Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences (18^(th) edition), ed. A. Gennaro, 1990, Mack Publishing Co., Easton, Pa.). In two specific examples, the PIV vectors, PIVs, LAV vectors, and LAVs are formulated in Minimum Essential Medium Earle's Salt (MEME) containing 7.5% lactose and 2.5% human serum albumin or MEME containing 10% sorbitol. However, the PIV vectors, PIVs, LAV vectors, and LAVs can simply be diluted in a physiologically acceptable solution, such as sterile saline or sterile buffered saline.

The PIV vectors, PIVs, LAV vectors, and LAVs of the invention can be administered using methods that are well known in the art, and appropriate amounts of the viruses and vectors to be administered can readily be determined by those of skill in the art. What is determined to be an appropriate amount of virus to administer can be determined by consideration of factors such as, e.g., the size and general health of the subject to whom the virus is to be administered. For example, in the case of live, attenuated viruses of the invention, the viruses can be formulated as sterile aqueous solutions containing between 10² and 10⁸, e.g., 10³ to 10⁷, infectious units (e.g., plaque-forming units or tissue culture infectious doses) in a dose volume of 0.1 to 1.0 ml. PIVs can be administered at similar doses and in similar volumes; PIV titers however are usually measured in, e.g., focus-forming units determined by immunostaining of foci, as these defective constructs tend not to form virus-like plaques. Doses can range between 10² and 10⁸ FFU and administered in volumes of 0.1 to 1.0 ml.

All viruses and vectors of the invention can be administered by, for example, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal, or oral routes. In specific examples, dendritic cells are targeted by intradermal or transcutaneous administration, by use of, for example, microneedles or microabrasion devices. Further, the vaccines of the invention can be administered in a single dose or, optionally, administration can involve the use of a priming dose followed by a booster dose that is administered, e.g., 2-6 months later, as determined to be appropriate by those of skill in the art. Optionally, PIV vaccines can be administered via DNA or RNA immunization using methods known to those skilled in the art (Chang et al., Nat. Biotechnol. 26:571-577, 2008; Kofler et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101:1951-1956, 2004).

Optionally, adjuvants that are known to those skilled in the art can be used in the administration of the viruses and vectors of the invention. Adjuvants that can be used to enhance the immunogenicity of the viruses include, for example, liposomal formulations, synthetic adjuvants, such as (e.g., QS21), muramyl dipeptide, monophosphoryl lipid A, polyphosphazine, CpG oligonucleotides, or other molecules that appear to work by activating Toll-like Receptor (TLR) molecules on the surface of cells or on nuclear membranes within cells. Although these adjuvants are typically used to enhance immune responses to inactivated vaccines, they can also be used with live or replication-defective vaccines. Both agonists of TLRs or antagonists may be useful in the case of live or replication-defective vaccines. The vaccine candidates can be designed to express TLR agonists. In the case of a virus delivered via a mucosal route, for example, orally, mucosal adjuvants such as the heat-labile toxin of E. coli (LT) or mutant derivations of LT can be used as adjuvants. In addition, genes encoding cytokines that have adjuvant activities can be inserted into the vaccine candidates. Thus, genes encoding desired cytokines, such as GM-CSF, IL-2, IL-12, IL-13, IL-5, etc., can be inserted together with foreign immunogen genes to produce a vaccine that results in enhanced immune responses, or to modulate immunity directed more specifically towards cellular, humoral, or mucosal responses (e.g., reviewed in “Immunopotentiators in Modern Vaccines”, Schijns and O'Hagan Eds., 2006, Elsevier Academic Press: Amsterdam, Boston, etc.). Optionally, a patch containing a layer of an appropriate toxin-derived adjuvant, can be t0 applied over the injection site. Toxin promotes local inflammation attracting lymphocytes, which leads to a more robust immune response.

EXAMPLES

Additional details concerning the invention are provided in the Examples, below. In the Examples, experiments are described in which PIVs based on WN, JE, and YF viruses (see, e.g., WO 2007/098267 and WO 2008/137163) were tested. Firstly, we demonstrated that the constructs are significantly more attenuated in a sensitive suckling mouse neurovirulence model (zero mortality at all tested doses) as compared to available LAV controls (YF17D, YF/JE LAV, and YF/WN LAV). We demonstrated for the first time that d-PIV constructs were avirulent in this model and thus that two-component PIVs do not undergo uncontrolled (unlimited) spread in vivo and cannot cause clinical signs. Secondly, we performed comparisons of the immunogenicity and efficacy of the PIVs and the LAVs, and demonstrated that PIV vaccines can induce immune response comparable to LAVs and be equally efficacious (e.g., as observed for PIV-WN and YF/WN LAV pair of vaccines). In one pair examined, YF17D LAV was significantly more immunogenic than PIV-YF. Thus, production of VLPs can vary between different, similarly designed PIV constructs. Specifically, we propose that PIV-YF does not generate a large amount of YF VLPs compared to PIV-WN (WN VLPs), and that increased production of VLPs can be achieved by genetic modifications at the C/prM junction in suboptimal PIV constructs. Specifically, the C/prM junction is an important location in the flavivirus polyprotein orchestrating the formation of viral envelope and synthesis of viral proteins (Yamshchikov and Compans, Virology 192:38-51, 1993; Amberg and Rice, J. Virol. 73:8083-8094, 1999; Stocks and Lobigs, J. Virol. 72:2141-2149, 1998). We propose that secretion of VLPs in PIV infected cells (in contrast to production of viral particles in whole viruses) can be increased by uncoupling of the viral protease and signalase cleavages at the junction, or use of a strong heterologous signal peptide (tPA, etc.) in place of the signal for prM, or by mutagenesis of the signal for prM. The efficiency of signalase cleavage at the C/prM junction of flaviviruses is low (Stocks and Lobigs, J. Virol. 72:2141-2149, 1998), e.g., as predicted by SignalP 3.0 on-line program. It is expected that more efficient cleavage efficiency can be achieved by analysis of specific amino acid substitutions near the cleavage site with SignalP 3.0 (e.g., as described in application WO 2008/100464), followed by incorporation of chosen mutation(s) into PIV genomes, recovery of PIV progeny and measuring VLP secretion. Non-flavivirus signals are inserted by methods standard in the art. Uncoupling between the viral protease and signalase cleavages can be achieved by ablating the viral cleavage site by any non-conservative mutation (e.g., RRS in YF17D C to RRA or GRS or RSS, etc.), or deletion of the entire site or some of its 3 residues. If necessary, formation of free N-terminus of the signal of foreign protein can be achieved by using such elements as autoprotease, or termination codon followed by an IRES. Alternatively, the native AUG initiation codon of C can be ablated (in constructs where C protein sequence is unnecessary, e.g., ΔC PIV) and AUG placed in front of foreign gene. Optimization of vector signal can be performed by random mutagenesis, e.g., by insertion of synthetic randomized sequence followed by identification of viable PIV variants with increased VLP secretion.

We also discovered that PIV constructs were substantially more immunogenic in hamsters when administered by the IP route, as compared to the subcutaneous route. We concluded that this was most likely due to better targeting of antigen presenting cells in lymphoid tissues, which are abundant in the abdomen, but not abundant in tissues underlying the skin. Based on these observations, we concluded that efficient targeting of PIVs to dendritic cells, abundant in the skin, can be achieved by cutaneous inoculation, e.g., via skin microabrasion or intradermal injection using microneedles (Dean et al., Hum Vaccin. 1:106-111, 2005).

Further, we have carried out experiments to show the feasibility of administering mixtures, or cocktails, of different PIVs, such as those described herein (e.g., JE+DEN and YF+DEN). In order to administer cocktails, it is important to verify that there is no interference between co-administered components, and that a balanced immune response is induced. Several PIV mixtures were used to immunize rodents and immune responses were compared to PIV constructs administered individually. No interference was observed in mixtures, and thus cocktail PIV vaccines are feasible. Such formulations may be of particular significance in geographical regions where different flaviviruses co-circulate. This could be also used to simultaneously administer several PIV-based vaccines against non-flavivirus pathogens.

Further, we have demonstrated that no neutralizing antibody response is induced against packaging envelope after at least two doses of PIV (and thus antibodies are elicited against VLPs secreted from infected cells). This was demonstrated using the helper (ΔprM-E) component of a d-PIV (see in FIG. 2) packaged individually, or by measuring neutralizing antibodies to heterologous packaging envelopes (e.g., to the WN envelope used to package PIV-JE in helper cells providing WN-specific C-prM-E proteins in trans). The latter observations support sequential use of different PIV vaccines manufactured in a universal helper packaging cells line, and sequential use of different recombinant PIV-vectored vaccines in the same individual, as discussed above. In addition, we confirmed previous observations that PIV constructs can be stably propagated to high yields in vitro, and that no recombination restoring whole virus occurs after prolonged passaging in substrate cells (Mason et al., Virology 351:432-443, 2006; Shustov et al., J. Virol. 21:11737-11748, 2007).

These and other aspects of the invention are further described in the Examples, below.

Example 1 Pseudoinfectious Virus Platform Development Studies Attenuation in Suckling Mouse Neurovirulence (NV) Model

Materials used in the studies described below are described in Table 1 and the references cited therein. These include s-PIV-WN (based on wt WN virus strain NY99 sequences), s-PIV-JE, s-PIV-WN/JE (based on wt WN virus backbone and prM-E genes from wt JE virus Nakayama strain), s-PIV-YF/WN (YF17D backbone and prM-E genes from WN virus), and s-PIV-YF (based on YF17D sequences). Additional materials include d-PIV-YF (YF d-PIV, grown in regular BHK cells (Shustov et al., J. Virol. 21:11737-11748, 2007), and two-component d-PIV-WN (grown in regular Vero cells; Suzuki et al., J. Virol. 82:6942-6951, 2008).

Attenuation of these PIV prototypes was compared to LAVs YF17D, a chimeric YF/JE virus, and a chimeric YF/WN virus in suckling mouse NV test (IC inoculation) using highly susceptible 5-day old ICR mice (the chimeric viruses include yellow fever capsid and non-structural sequences, and JE or WN prM-E sequences). None of the animals that received Ply constructs showed clinical signs or died, while mortality was observed in animals inoculated with LAVs (Table 2). The YF17D virus is neurovirulent for mice of all ages, while the chimeric vaccines are not neurovirulent for adult mice, but can cause dose-dependent mortality in more sensitive suckling mice (Guirakhoo et al., Virology 257:363-372, 1999; Arroyo et al., J. Virol. 78:12497-12507, 2004). Accordingly, 90%-100% of suckling mice that received doses as low as 1 PFU of YF17D died. YF/JE and YF/WN LAVs caused partial mortality at much higher doses (>2 log₁₀ PFU and 3 log₁₀ PFU, respectively), with longer average survival time (AST) of animals that died, as expected. Thus, PIV constructs are completely avirulent in this sensitive model (at least 20,000-200,000 times less neurovirulent than the licensed YF17D vaccine).

The YF d-PIV and WN d-PIV caused no mortality or clinical signs. Thus, the two-component PIV variants that theoretically could spread within brain tissue from cells co-infected by both of their components did not cause disease. Moreover, we tried to detect the d-PIVs in the brains of additional animals in this experiment, sacrificed on day 6 post-inoculation by titration, and detected none (brain tissues from 10 and 11 mice that received 4 log₁₀ FFU of YF d-PIV and WN d-PIV, respectively, were homogenized and used for titration). Thus, the d-PIVs did not cause spreading infection characteristic of whole virus. YF/JE LAV has been shown to replicate in the brain of adult ICR mice inoculated by the IC route with a peak titer of 6 log₁₀ PFU/g on day 6, albeit without clinical signs (Guirakhoo et al., Virology 257:363-372, 1999). Co-infection of cells with components of a d-PIV is clearly a less efficient process than infection with whole virus. The data show that d-PIV replication in vivo is quickly brought under control by innate immune responses (and adaptive responses in older animals).

Immunogenicity/Efficacy in Mice and Hamsters

Immunogenicity/efficacy of the PIV prototypes described above was compared to that of chimeric LAV counterparts and YF17D in mice and Syrian hamsters. The general experiment design is illustrated in FIG. 3 (mice, IP immunization). Experiments in hamsters were performed similarly (plus-minus a few days, SC or IP inoculation with doses indicated below). 3.5-week old ICR mice (for s-PIV-WN and -YF, YF/WN LAV, and YF17D groups) or C57/BL6 mice (for s-PIV-JE and YF/JE LAV groups) were immunized IP with graded doses of PIV constructs (4-6 log₁₀ FFU/dose) or chimeric LAV and YF17D LAV controls (4 log₁₀ PFU). Select P1V-WN, -JE and -YF groups were boosted on day 21 with 5 log₁₀ FFU of corresponding constructs (Table 3). Neutralizing antibody responses were determined in animal sera by standard PRNT₅₀ against YF/WN or /JE LAVs, or YF17D viruses. PIV-WN induced very high WN-specific neutralizing antibody responses in all groups, with or without boost, as evidenced by PRNT₅₀ titers determined in pools of sera from immunized animals on days 20 and 34, which was comparable to that in the YF/WN LAV control group. Accordingly, animals immunized with both PIV-WN and YF/WN LAV were protected from lethal challenge on day 35 with wt WN virus (IP, 270 LD₅₀), but not mock-immunized animals (Table 3). When WN neutralizing antibodies were measured in sera from individual mice, high uniformity of immune responses was observed (FIG. 4). Thus, single-round PIV vaccines can be as immunogenic and efficacious as corresponding LAVs. PIV-JE was also highly immunogenic (black mice), while immunogenicity of PIV-YF was significantly lower compared to the YF17D control (ICR mice). Yet, dose-dependent protection of PIV-YF immunized animals (but not mock-immunized animals) was observed following a severe lethal IC challenge with wt YF strain Asibi virus (500 LD₅₀) (Table 3), which is in agreement with the knowledge that neutralizing antibody titers as low 1:10 are protective against flavivirus infections.

The YF17D control virus was highly immunogenic (e.g., PRNT₅₀ titer 1:1,280 on day 34), and thus it is able to infect cells and replicate efficiently in vivo, and its envelope is a strong immunogen. Therefore, it is unlikely that low immunogenicity of PIV-YF was due to its inability to infect cells or replicate efficiently in infected cells in vivo. We believe that the low immunogenicity of PIV-YF (e.g., compared to PIV-WN) was most likely due to a low-level production of YF-specific VLPs in PIV-YF infected cells (while VLP secretion is high in PIV-WN infected cells). As discussed above, we propose that immunogenicity of PIV-YF can be significantly increased, e.g., by appropriate modifications at the C/prM junction, e.g., by uncoupling the two protease cleavages that occur at this junction (viral protease and signalase cleavages), and/or by using a strong heterologous signal [e.g., rabies virus G protein signal, or eukaryotic tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) signal (Malin et al., Microbes and Infection, 2:1677-1685, 2000), etc.] in place of the YF signal for prM.

A similar experiment was performed in ˜4.5-week old Syrian hamsters, to compare immunogenicity of PIV constructs to LAV controls in this model. Animals were immunized SC with graded doses of the test articles (Table 4). PIV-WN was highly immunogenic, e.g., WN-specific PRNT₅₀ titers on day 38 (pre-challenge) were 1:320, 1:640, and 1:1280 in groups that received 5, 6, and 6 (prime)+5 (boost) log₁₀ FFU doses, respectively. This was somewhat lower compared to YF/WN LAV 4 log_(o) PFU control (≧1:2560). PIV-JE and -YF induced detectable specific neutralizing antibody responses, albeit with lower titers compared to YF/JE LAV and YF17D controls. All animals immunized with PIV-WN and YF/WN were solidly protected from lethal challenge with wt WN virus as evidenced by the absence of mortality and morbidity (e.g., loss of body weight after challenge), as well as absence or a significant reduction of postchallenge WN virus viremia. Mock-immunized animals were not protected (Table 4). PIV-JE and -WN protected animals from respective challenge in dose-dependent fashion. Protective efficacy in this experiment is additionally illustrated in FIG. 5. For example, high post-challenge YF virus (hamster adapted Asibi strain) viremia was observed in mock immunized animals, peaking on day 3 at a titer of >8 log₁₀ PFU/ml (upper left panel); all of the animals lost weight, and 1 out of 4 died (upper right panel). In contrast, viremia was significantly reduced or absent in hamsters immunized with PIV-YF (two doses; despite relatively low neutralizing titers) or YF17D; none of these animals lost weight. Similarly, animals immunized with PIV-WN or YF/WN LAV were significantly or completely protected in terms of post-challenge WN virus viremia and body weigh loss/mortality, in contrast to mock controls (compare in bottom panels). Thus, high immunogenicity/efficacy of PIV was demonstrated in a second animal model.

In another hamster experiment, animals were immunized with PIV constructs by the IP route, with two doses. Table 5 compares neutralizing immune responses (specific for each vaccine) determined in pooled sera of hamsters in the above-described experiment (SC inoculation) to those after IP immunization, for PIV-WN, -YF/WN, -WN/JE, and -YF after the first dose (days 20-21) and second dose (days 34-38). A clear effect of the immunization route was observed both after the 1^(st) and 2^(nd) doses. For instance, for PIV-WN after 1^(st) dose, SC immunization resulted in WN-specific PRNT50 titer of 1:40, while IP inoculation resulted in much higher titer 1:320 (and after the 2^(nd) dose, titers were similar). A more pronounced effect was observed for other constructs after both the 1^(st) and 2^(nd) doses. Interestingly, PIV-YF/WN was very highly immunogenic by IP route (titer 1:320 after 1^(st) IP dose vs. 1:20 by SC, and 1:1,280 after 2^(nd) dose vs. 1:160 by SC). Similarly, immunogenicity of PIV-JE was significantly increased (e.g., JE-specific titer of 1:640 after two IP poses). Thus, better targeting of lymphoid cells, specifically antigen-presenting cells (which are more abundant in the abdomen as opposed to tissues under the skin), is an important consideration for use of PIV vaccines. In humans, efficient targeting of dendritic cells of the skin, increasing the magnitude of immune response, can be achieved by intradermal delivery, which we thus propose for a route for PIV immunization of humans.

In the above-described experiments, we also determined whether a neutralizing antibody response was induced against packaging envelopes (as opposed to response to VLPs encoded by PIV constructs and secreted by infected cells). No WN-specific neutralizing antibodies were detected by PRNT₅₀ in animals immunized with 5 log_(in) FFU of the second component of WN d-PIV, containing the ΔC-prM-E deletion and thus not encoding VLPs, but packaged into the WN envelope in BHK-CprME(WN) helper cells, and no YF-specific neutralizing activity was found in sera from animals immunized with 4 log₁₀ FFU of the second component of YF d-PIV packaged in YF envelope. No YF-specific neutralizing response was induced by two doses of PIV-YF/WN packaged into YF envelope, and similarly, no WN-specific response was induced by two doses of PIV-JE packaged into WN envelope. The absence of neutralizing response against packaging envelopes permits manufacturing different PIV vaccines in one (universal) manufacturing helper cell line, or immunization of one individual with different recombinant vaccines based on the same vector, according to the present invention.

PIV Cocktails

Because PIVs undergo a single (optionally several, but limited) round(s) of replication in vivo, we considered that mixtures of different PIV vaccines can be administered without interference between individual constructs in the mixture (cocktail). To elucidate whether PIV vaccines can be used in cocktail formulations, immune responses in mice and hamsters to several PIV constructs given as mixtures were compared to the same constructs given individually. Similar results were obtained in both animal models. Results of mouse experiments are shown in Table 6. Similar anti-JE neutralizing antibody titers were observed in pools of sera from animals that were given one or two doses of either PIV-JE+PIV-WN mixture or PIV-JE alone (1:20 vs. 1:80 and 1:640 vs. 1:160, for one and two doses, respectively). Similarly, WN-specific titers against PIV-JE+PIV-WN mixture and PIV-WN alone were similar (1:320 vs. 1:640 and 1:5,120 vs. 1:5,120 for one and 2 doses, respectively). No or little cross-specific response was induced by either PIV-JE or -WN. The result was also confirmed by measuring PRNT₅₀ titers in sera from individual animals. Thus, it is clear that PIV vaccines can be efficiently administered as cocktails, inducing immunity against two or more flavivirus pathogens. In addition, as discussed above, various cocktails can be made between non-flavivirus PIV vaccines, or between any of flavivirus and non-flavivirus PIV vaccines.

In Vitro Studies

Different PIV prototypes were serially passaged up to 10 times in helper BHK cells, for s-PIVs, or in regular Vero cells, for d-PIVs. Samples harvested after each passage were titrated in Vero cells by immunostaining. Constructs grew to high titers, and no recombination restoring whole virus was observed. For instance, PIV-WN consistently grew to titers 7-8 log₁₀ FFU/ml in BHK-CprME(WN) helper cells (containing a VEE replicon expressing the WN virus C-prM-E proteins), and WN d-PIV grew to titers exceeding 8 log₁₀ FFU/ml in Vero cells, without recombination.

Example 2 PIV-TBE

PIV-TBE vaccine candidates can be assembled based entirely on sequences from wt TBE virus or the closely serologically related Langat (LGT) virus (naturally attenuated virus, e.g., wt strain TP-21 or its empirically attenuated variant, strain E5), or based on chimeric sequences containing the backbone (capsid and non-structural sequences) from YF 17D or other flaviviruses, such as WN virus, and the prM-E envelope protein genes from TBE, LGT, or other serologically related flaviviruses from the TBE serocomplex. YF/TBE LAV candidates are constructed based on the backbone from YF 17D and the prM-E genes from TBE or related viruses (e.g., the E5 strain of LGT), similar to other chimeric LAV vaccines.

Construction of PIV-TBE and YF/TBE LAV vaccine prototypes was performed by cloning of appropriate genetic elements into plasmids for PIV-WN (Mason et al., Virology 351:432-443, 2006; Suzuki et al., J. Virol. 82:6942-6951, 2008), or plasmids for chimeric LAVs (e.g., pBSA-AR1, a single-plasmid version of infectious clone of YF/JE LAV; WO 2008/036146), respectively, using standard methods in the art of reverse genetics. The prM-E sequences of TBE virus strain Hypr (GenBank accession number U39292) and LGT strain E5 (GenBank accession number AF253420) were first computer codon-optimized to conform to the preferential codon usage in the human genome, and to eliminate nucleotide sequence repeats longer than 8 nt to ensure high genetic stability of inserts (if determined to be necessary, further shortening of nt sequence repeats can be performed). The genes were chemically synthesized and cloned into plasmids for PIV-WN and YF/JE LAV, in place of corresponding prM-E genes. Resulting plasmids were in vitro transcribed and appropriate cells (Vero for chimeric viruses, and helper BHK cells for PIV) were transfected with RNA transcripts to generate virus/PIV samples.

YF/TBE LAV Constructs

In YF/TBE constructs containing either the TBE Hypr (plasmids p42, p45, and p59) or LGT E5 (plasmid P43) prM-E genes, two different types of the C/prM junction were first examined (see in FIG. 6; C/prM junctions only are shown in Sequence Appendix 1, and complete 5′-terminal sequences covering the 5′UTR-C-prM-E-beginning of NS1 region are shown in Sequence Appendix 2). The p42-derived YF17D/Hypr chimera contained a hybrid YF17D/Hypr signal peptide for the prM protein, while the p45-derived YF17D/Hypr chimera contained a hybrid YF17D/WN signal peptide for prM (Sequence Appendix 1). The former chimeric virus produced very high titers at both P0 (immediately after transfection) and P1 (the next passage in Vero cells), up to 7.9 log₁₀ PFU/ml, which were 0.5 log₁₀ times higher, compared to the latter virus; in addition it formed significantly larger plaques in Vero cells (FIG. 6). Thus, use of TBE-specific residues in the signal peptide for prM conferred a significant growth advantage over the signal containing WN-specific residues. The p43-derived YF17D/LGT chimera had the same prM signal as the p42-derived virus; it also produced very high titers at P0 and P1 passages (up to 8.1 log₁₀ PFU/ml) and formed large plaques. A derivative of the p42-derived virus was also produced from plasmid p59, which contained a strong attenuating mutation characterized previously in the context of a YF/WN LAV vaccine virus, specifically, a 3-a.a. deletion in the YF17D-specific C protein (PSR, residues 40-42 in the beginning of α-Helix 1; WO 2006/116182). As expected, the p59 virus grew to lower titers (5.6 and 6.5 log₁₀ PFU/ml at P0 and P1, respectively), and formed small plaques (determined in a separate titration experiment and thus not shown in FIG. 6), compared to the parent p42-derived chimera. These initial observations of growth properties of YF/TBE LAV prototypes, and correlation of replication in vitro with plaque morphologies, have been confirmed in growth curve experiments (FIG. 8).

PIV-TBE Constructs

PIV-WN/TBE variants were constructed, and packaged PIV samples were derived from plasmids p39 and p40 (FIG. 7; Sequence Appendix 1 for C/prM junction sequences, and Sequence Appendix 3 for complete 5′UTR-ΔC-prM-E-beginning of NS1 sequences). These contained complete Hypr or WN prM signals, respectively. Both PIVs were successfully recovered and propagated in BHK-CprME(WN) or BHK-C(WN) helper cells (Mason et al., Virology 351:432-443, 2006; Widman et al., Vaccine 26:2762-2771, 2008). The P0 and P1 sample titers of the p39 variant were 0.2-1.0 log₁₀ times, higher than p40 variant. In addition, Vero cells infected with p39 variant were stained brighter in immunofluorescence assay using a polyclonal TBE-specific antibody, compared to p40, indicative of more efficient replication (FIG. 7). The higher rate of replication of the p39 candidate than p40 candidate was confirmed in a growth curve experiment (FIG. 8). In the latter experiment, both candidates appeared to grow better in the BHK-C(WN) helper cells compared to BHK-CprME(WN), with the p39 variant reaching titer of ˜7 log₁₀ PFU/ml on day 5 (note that peak titers have not been reached). The discovery of the effect of prM signal on replication rates of both PIV and chimeric LAV vaccine candidates, and head-to-head comparison of different signals to generate the most efficiently replicating and immunogenic (see above) construct, are a distinguishing feature of our approach. As discussed above, the invention also includes the use of other flavivirus signals, including with appropriate mutations, the uncoupling the viral protease and signalase cleavages at the C/prM junction, e.g., by mutating or deleting the viral protease cleavage site at the C-terminus of C preceding the prM signal, the use of strong non-flavivirus signals (e.g., tPA signal, etc.) in place of prM signal, as well as optimization of sequences downstream from the signalase cleavage site.

Other PIV-TBE variants based entirely on wt TBE (Hypr strain) and LGT virus (TP21 wild type strain or attenuated E5 strain), and chimeric YF 17D backbone/prM-E (TBE or LGT) sequences are also included in the invention. Helper cells providing appropriate C, C-prM-E, etc., proteins (e.g., TBE-specific) for trans-complementation can be constructed by means of stable DNA transfection or through the use of an appropriate vector, e.g., an alphavirus replicon, such as based on VEE strain TC-83, with antibiotic selection of replicon-containing cells. Vero and BHK21 cells can be used in practice of the invention. The former are an approved substrate for human vaccine manufacture; any other cell line acceptable for human and/or veterinary vaccine manufacturing can be also used. In addition to s-PIV constructs, d-PIV constructs can also be assembled. To additionally ascertain safety for vaccinees and the environment, appropriate modifications can be employed, including the use of degenerate codons and complementary mutations in the 5′ and 3′ CS elements, to minimize chances of recombination that theoretically could result in viable virus. Following construction, all vaccine candidates can be evaluated in vitro for manufacturability/stability, and in vivo for attenuation and immunogenicity/efficacy, in available pre-clinical animal models, such as those used in development and quality control of TBE and YF vaccines.

Neurovirulence and Neuroinvasiveness in Mice of PIV-TBE and YF/TBE LAV Constructs

Young adult ICR mice (˜3.5 week-old), were inoculated with graded doses of PIV-TBE and YF/TBE LAV candidates by the IC route to measure neurovirulence, or IP route to measure neuroinvasiveness (and later immunogenicity/efficacy). Animals that received 5 log₁₀ FFU of PIV-Hypr (p39 and p40) variants by both routes survived and showed no signs of sickness, similar to mock-inoculated animals (Table 7), and thus PIV-TBE vaccines are completely avirulent. Mice inoculated IC with YF 17D control (1-3 log₁₀ PFU) showed dose-dependent mortality, while all animals inoculated IP (5 log₁₀ PFU) survived, in accord with the knowledge that YF 17D virus is not neuroinvasive. All animals that received graded IC doses (2-4 log₁₀ PFU) of YF/TBE LAV prototypes p42, p45, p43, and p59 died (moribund animals were humanely euthanized). These variants appear to be less attenuated than YF 17D, e.g., as evidenced by complete mortality and shorter AST at the 2 log₁₀ PFU dose, the lowest dose tested for YF/TBE LAV candidates. The non-neurovirulent phenotype of PIV-TBE, virulent phenotype of YF/TBE LAV and intermediate-virulence phenotype of YF 17D are also illustrated in FIG. 9, showing survival curves of mice after IC inoculation. It should be noted that the p43 (LGT prM-E genes) and p59 (the dC2 deletion variant of YF/Hypr LAV) were less neurovirulent than p42 and p45 YF/Hypr LAV constructs as evidenced by larger AST values for corresponding doses (Table 7). In addition, p43 and p59 candidates were non-neuroinvasive, while p42 and p45 caused partial mortality after IP inoculation (5 log₁₀ PFU/dose) (Table 7; FIG. 10). It should be noted however that all the YF/TBE LAV constructs were significantly attenuated as compared to wt TBE viruses, e.g., compared to wt TBE Hypr virus, which is uniformly highly virulent for mice, both at very low IC (LD₅₀˜0.1 PFU) and IP (LD₅₀≦10 PFU) doses (Wallner et al., J. Gen. Virol. 77:1035-1042, 1996; Mandl et al., J. Virol. 72:2132-2140, 1998; Mandl et al., J. Gen. Virol. 78:1049-1057, 1997

Immunogenicity/Efficacy of PIV-TBE and YF/TBE LAV Constructs in Mice

TBE-specific neutralizing antibody responses in mice immunized IP with one or two doses of the PIV-TBE or YF/TBE LAV variants described above, or a human formalin-inactivated TBE vaccine control (1:30 of human dose) are being measured. Animals have been challenged with a high IP dose (500 PFU) of wt Hypr TBE virus; morbidity (e.g., weight loss), and mortality after challenge are monitored.

Immunogenicity/Efficacy of PIV-TBE and YF/TBE LAV Constructs in Mice

TBE-specific neutralizing antibody responses in mice immunized IP with one or two doses of the PIV-TBE or YF/TBE LAV variants described above (from experiment in Table 7), or a human formalin-inactivated TBE vaccine control (1:20 of human dose; one or two doses), or YF 17D and mock controls, were measured on day 20 by PRNT₅₀ against wt TBE Hypr virus (Table 8; second dose of indicated test articles was given on day 14). [Titers were determined in individual sera, or pooled sera from two animals in most cases, or pooled sera from 4 animals for the YF17D and Mock negative controls]. Titers in individual test samples as well as GMTs for each group are provided in Table 8. Titers in test samples were similar within each group, e.g., in groups immunized with PIVs, indicating high uniformity of immune response in animals. As expected, no TBE-specific neutralizing antibodies were detected in negative control groups (YF 17D and Mock; GMTs <1:10); accordingly, animals in these groups were not protected from challenge on day 21 post-immunization with a high IP dose (500 PFU) of wt Hypr TBE virus. Mortalities from partial observation (on day 9 post-challenge; observation being continued) are provided in Table 8, and dynamics of average post-challenge body weights indicative of morbidity are shown in FIG. 11. Neutralizing antibodies were detected in killed vaccine controls, which were particularly high after two doses (GMT 1:1,496); animals in the 2-dose group were completely protected in that there was no mortality or body weight loss (but not animals in the 1-dose group). Animals that received both one and two doses of PIV-Hypr p39 had very high antibody titers (GMTs 1:665 and 1:10,584) and were solidly protected, demonstrating that robust protective immunity can be induced by s-PIV-TBE, defective vaccine. The two animals that survived immunization with YF/Hypr p42 chimera (see in Table 7) also had high antibody titers (GMT 1:6,085) and were protected (Table 8; FIG. 11). Interestingly, PIV-Hypr p40 and YF/Hypr p45 were poorly immunogenic (GMTs 1:15 and 1:153 for one and two doses, and 1:68, respectively). As discussed above, these contained WN-specific sequences in the signal for prM, while the highly immunogenic PIV-Hypr p39 and YF/Hypr p42 constructs contained TBE-specific signal sequences. In agreement with discussion above, this result demonstrates the importance of choosing the right prM signal, e.g., the TBE-specific signal, to achieve high-level replication/VLP secretion, which in this experiment in vivo resulted in drastically different immune responses. Immunogenicity of YF/LGT p43 and YF/Hypr dC2 p59 chimeras was relatively low which could be expected, because of the use of a heterologous envelope (LGT, different from challenge TBE virus) and high attenuating effect of the dC2 deletion, respectively.

Example 3 Foreign Gene Expression

In the examples of recombinant PIV constructs described below, genes of interest were codon optimized (e.g., for efficient expression in a target vaccination host) and to eliminate long nt sequence repeats to increase insert stability (≧8 nt long; additional shortening of repeats can be performed if necessary), and then chemically synthesized. The genes were cloned into PIV-WN vector plasmids using standard methods of molecular biology well known in the art, and packaged PIVs were recovered following in vitro transcription and transfection of appropriate helper (for s-PIVs) or regular (for d-PIVs) cells.

Expression of Rabies Virus G Protein in WN s-PIV and d-PIV

Rabies virus, Rhabdoviridae family, is a significant human and veterinary pathogen. Despite the availability of several (killed) vaccines, improved vaccines are still needed for both veterinary and human use (e.g. as an inexpensive pre-exposure prophylactic vaccines). Rabies virus glycoprotein G mediates entry of the virus into cells and is the main immunogen. It has been expressed in other vectors with the purpose of developing veterinary vaccines (e.g., Pastoret and Brochier, Epidemio. Infect. 116:235-240, 1996; Li et al., Virology 356:147-154, 2006).

Full length rabies virus G protein (original Pasteur virus isolate, GenBank accession number NC_(—)001542) was codon-optimized, chemically synthesized, and inserted adjacent to the ΔC, ΔprM-E and ΔC-prM-E deletions in PIV-WN vectors (FIG. 12). The sequences of constructs are provided in Sequence Appendix 4. General designs of the constructs are illustrated in FIG. 13. The entire G protein containing its own signal peptide was inserted in-frame downstream from the WN C protein either with the ΔC deletion (ΔC and ΔC-prM-E constricts) or without (ΔprM-E) and a few residues from the prM signal. Foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) 2A autoprotease was placed downstream from the transmembrane C-terminal anchor of G to provide cleavage of C-terminus of G from the viral polyprotein during translation. The FMDV 2A element is followed by WN-specific signal for prM and prM-E-NS1-5 genes in the ΔC construct, or signal for NS1 and NS1-5 genes in ΔprM-E and ΔC-prM-E constructs.

Packaged WN(ΔC)-rabiesG, WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG, and WN(ΔCprME)-rabiesG PIVs were produced by transfection of helper BHK cells complementing the PIV vector deletion [containing a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (strain TC-83) replicon expressing WN virus structural proteins for trans-complementation]. Efficient replication and expression of rabies G protein was demonstrated for the three constructs by transfection/infection of BHK-C(WN) and/or BHK-C-prM-E(WN) helper cells, as well as regular BHK cells, by immunostaining and immunofluorescence assay (IFA) using anti-Rabies G monoclonal antibody (RabG-Mab) (FIG. 14). Titers were determined in Vero cells by immunostaining with the Mab or an anti-WN virus polyclonal antibody. Growth curves of the constructs in BHK-CprME(WN) cells after transfection with in vitro RNA transcripts are shown in FIG. 14, bottom panels. The PIVs grew efficiently to titers ˜6 to >7 log₁₀ FFU/ml. Importantly, nearly identical titers were detected by both RabG-Mab and WN-antibody staining, which was the first evidence of genetic stability of the insert. In PIV-infected Vero cells, which were fixed but not permeabilized, strong membrane staining was observed by RabG-Mab staining, demonstrating that the product was efficiently delivered to the cell surface (FIG. 15). The latter is known to be the main prerequisite for high immunogenicity of expressed G. Individual packaged PIVs can spread following infection of helper BHK cells, but cannot spread in regular cells as illustrated for WN(ΔC)-rabiesG PIV in FIG. 16. The fact that there is no spread in naïve BHK cells demonstrates that the recombinant RNA genomes cannot be non-specifically packaged into membrane vesicles containing the G protein, if produced by PIV infected cells. An identical result was obtained with the G protein of another rhabdovirus, Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), contrary to previous observations of non-specific packaging of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) replicon expressing VSV G protein (Rolls et al., Cell 79:497-506, 1994). The latter is a desired safety feature. [Alternatively, some non-specific packaging could result in a limited spread of PIV in vivo, potentially enhancing anti-rabies immune response. The latter could be also a beneficial feature, given that such PIV is demonstrated to be safe]. The stability of the rabies G insert in the three PIVs was demonstrated by serial passages in helper BHK-CprME(WN) cells at high or low MOI (0.1 or 0.001 FFU/cell). At each passage, cell supernatants were harvested and titrated in regular cells (e.g., Vero cells) using immunostaining with an anti-WN polyclonal antibody to determine total PIV titer, or anti-rabies G monoclonal antibody to determine titer of particles containing the G gene (illustrated for MOI 0.1 in FIG. 17; similar results were obtained at MOI 0.001). The WN(ΔC)-rabiesG PIV was stable for 5 passages, while the titer of insert-containing PIV started declining at passage 6, indicative of insert instability. This could be expected, because in this construct, large G gene insert (˜1500 nt) is combined with a small ΔC deletion (˜200 nt), significantly increasing the overall size of the recombinant RNA genome. In contrast, in WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG, and WN(ΔCprME)-rabiesG PIVs, the insert is combined with a much larger deletion (˜2000 nt). Therefore, these constructs stably maintained the insert for all 10 passages examined (FIG. 17). Further, it can be seen in FIG. 17 that at some passages, titers as high as 8 log₁₀ FFU/ml, or higher, were attained for all three PIVs, additionally demonstrating that PIVs can be easily propagated to high yields.

Following inoculation in vivo individually, the WN(ΔC)-rabiesG s-PIV is expected to induce strong neutralizing antibody immune responses against both rabies and WN viruses, as well as T-cell responses. The WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG and WN(ΔCprME)-rabiesG PIVs will induce humoral immune response only against rabies because they do not encode the WN prM-E genes. WN(ΔC)-rabiesG s-PIV construct can be also co-inoculated with WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG construct in a d-PIV formulation (see in FIG. 12), increasing the dose of expressed G protein, and with enhanced immunity against both pathogens due to limited spread. As an example of spread, titration results in Vero cells of a s-PIV sample, WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG, and a d-PIV sample, WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG+WN(ΔC) PIV (the latter did not encode rabies G protein), are shown in FIG. 18. Infection of naïve Vero cells with s-PIV gave only individual cells stainable with RabG-Mab (or small clusters formed due to division of cells). In contrast, large foci were observed following infection with the d-PIV sample (FIG. 18, right panel) that were products of coinfection with the two PIV types.

The WN(ΔCprME)-rabiesG construct can be also used in a d-PIV formulation, if it is co-inoculated with a helper genome providing C-prM-E in trans (see in FIG. 12). For example it can be a WN virus genome containing a deletion of one of the NS proteins, e.g., NS1, NS3, or NS5, which are known to be trans-complementable (Khromykh et al., J. Virol. 73:10272-10280, 1999; Khromykh et al., J. Virol. 74:3253-3263, 2000). We have constructed a WN-ΔNS1 genome (sequence provided in Sequence Appendix 4) and obtained evidence of co-infection with WN(ΔprME)-rabiesG or WN(ΔCprME)-rabiesG constructs, and spread in vitro, by immunostaining. In the case of such d-PIVs, rabies G protein can be also inserted and expressed in helper genome, e.g., WN-ΔNS1 genome, to increase the amount of expressed rabies G protein resulting in an increased anti-rabies immune response. As with any dPIV versions, one immunogen can be from one pathogen (e.g., rabies G) and the other from a second pathogen, resulting in three antigenic specificities of vaccine. As discussed above, ΔNS1 deletions can be replaced with or used in combination with ΔNS3 and/or ΔNS5 deletions/mutations, in other examples.

Expression of RSV F Protein in WN s-PIV and d-PIV

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), member of Paramyxoviridae family, is the leading cause of severe respiratory tract disease in young children worldwide (Collins and Crowe, Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Metapneumovirus, In: Knipe et al. Eds., Fields Virology, 5^(th) ed., Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007:1601-1646). Fusion protein F of the virus is a lead viral antigen for developing a safe and effective vaccine. To avoid post-vaccination exacerbation of RSV infection observed previously with a formalin-inactivated vaccine candidate, a balanced Th1/Th2 response to F is required which can be achieved by better TLR stimulation, a prerequisite for induction of high-affinity antibodies (Delgado et al., Nat. Med. 15:34-41, 2009), which should be achievable through delivering F in a robust virus-based vector. We have previously demonstrated the capacity of yellow fever virus-based chimeric LAV vectors to induce a strong, balanced Th1/Th2 response in vivo against an influenza antigen (WO 2008/036146). In the present invention, both yellow fever virus-based chimeric LAVs and PIV vectors are used for delivering RSV F to induce optimal immune response profile. Other LAVs and PIV vectors described herein can also be used for this purpose.

Full-length RSV F protein of A2 strain of the virus (GenBank accession number P03420) was codon optimized as described above, synthesized, and cloned into plasmids for PIV-WN s-PIV and d-PIV, using the insertion schemes shown in FIGS. 12 and 13 for rabies G protein, by applying standard methods of molecular biology. Exact sequences of the insertions and surrounding genetic elements are provided in Sequence Appendix 5. In vitro RNA transcripts of resulting WN(ΔC)-RSV F, WN(ΔprME)-RSV F, and WN(ΔCprME)-RSV F PIV constructs were used to transfect helper BHK-CprME(WN) cells. Efficient replication and expression of RSV F protein was first demonstrated by immunostaining of transfected cells with an anti-RSV F Mab, as illustrated for the WN(ΔprME)-RSV F construct in FIG. 19. The presence of packaged PIVs in the supernatants from transfected cells (titer as high as 7 log10 FFU/ml) was determined by titration in Vero cells with immunostaining. Additionally, similar constructs can be used that contain a modified full length F protein gene. Specifically, the N-terminal native signal peptide of F is replaced in modified F protein with the one from rabies virus G protein. The modification is intended to elucidate whether the use of a heterologous signal can increase the rate of F protein synthesis and/or replication of PIVs.

TABLE 1 PIV prototype constructs used in platform development studies Construct Genetic composition Packaged in PIV-WN wt NY99 WN virus WN envelope; BHK-CprME(WN) or BHK-C(WN) helper cells (Mason et al., Virology 2006, 351: 432- 43; Widman et al., Vaccine 2008, 26: 2762-71) PIV-YF/WN Envelope (VLP): wt WN NY99 YF 17D envelope; BHK-CprME(YF) helper cells Backbone: YF 17D (Widman et al., Adv Virus Res. 2008, 72: 77-126) PIV-WN/JE Envelope (VLP): wt JE Nakayama JE or WN envelope; BHK-C(WN) or BHK- Backbone: wt WN NY99 CprME(WN) helper cells (Ishikawa et al., Vaccine 2008, 26: 2772-8) PIV-YF YF 17D YF 17D envelope; BHK-CprME(YF) or BHK-C(YF) helper cells (Mason et al., Virology 2006, 351: 432- 43)

TABLE 2 Safety: Suckling mouse neurovirulence¹ Doses Mortality AST Construct (log₁₀) (%) (days)² PIV-YF 1-4 0/10 (0%) na PIV-WN 2-5 0/10 (0%) na PIV-WN/JE 1-4 0/11 (0%) na PIV-YF/WN 1-4 0/10-11 (0%) na WN d-PIV 1-4 0/10-11 (0%) na YF d-PIV 1-4 0/10 (0%) na YF17D 2 10/10 (100%) 7.6 1 10/10 (100%) 9.3 0 9/10 (90%) 9.9 −1   3/10 (30%) 9.6 YF/JE 4 9/11 (82%) 9.7 3 7/10 (70%) 12.3  2 3/11 (27%) 12   1 0/11 (0%) na YF/WN 3 2/11 (18%) 12.5  0-2 0/10-11 (0%) na ¹Single dose, IC inoculation, ICR 5-day old mice, graded log doses administered. ²AST for mice that died; na, not applicable.

TABLE 3 PIV highly immunosenic and efficacious in mice¹ PRNT PRNT Post-challenge Group Dose Day 20 Day 34 mortality (%) PIV-WN 10⁵ 640 1280 0/8 (0%) 10⁶ 1280 2560 1/8 (12.5%) 10⁶ + 10⁵ 2560 2560 0/6 (0%) YF/WN control 10⁴ 1280 2560 1/8 (12.5%) PIV-WN/JE 10⁴ 10 20 N/D 10⁵ 20 20 N/D 10⁵ + 10⁵ 20 160 N/D YF/JE control 10⁴ 160 320 N/D PIV-YF 10⁴ <10 <10 8/8 (100%) 10⁵ <10 <10 5/7 (71%) 10⁵ + 10⁵ 10 10 2/5 (40%) YF17D control 10⁴ 640 1280 0/7 (0%) Mock control WN challenge Diluent N/D 0 7/7 (100%) YF challenge Diluent N/D 0 8/8 (100%) ¹IP immunization (d 0 prime, and d 21 boost in select groups); challenge on d 35: wt WN NY99, 3 log₁₀ PFU IP, 270 LD50; wt YF Asibi, 3 log₁₀ PFU IC, 500 LD50; N/D, not determined.

TABLE 4 PIV are immunogenic in hamsters and protect against challenge¹ POST-CHALLENGE PRNT Peak viremia Group Dose(s) Day 38 Mortality Morbidity (log) PIV-WN 10⁵ 320 0/5 (0%) 0/5 (0%) 2.3 10⁶ 640 0/5 (0%) 0/5 (0%) 1.8 10⁶ + 10⁵ 1280 0/5 (0%) 0/5 (0%) <1.3 YF/WN control 10⁴ ≧2560 0/5 (0%) 0/5 (0%) <1.3 PIV-WN/JE 10⁴ 20 2/5 (40%) 2/5 (40%) 2.2 10⁵ + 10⁵ 40 0/5 (0%) 0/5 (0%) <1.3 YF/JE control 10⁴ 2560 0/5 (0%) 0/5 (0%) 1.3 PIV-YF 10⁴ <10 1/3 (33%) 3/3 (100%) 8.3 10⁵ <10 1/5 (20%) 4/5 (80%) 8.3 10⁵ + 10⁵ 20 0/4 (0%) 0/4 (0%) 2.5 YF17D control 10⁴ ≧2560 0/4 (0%) 0/4 (0%) <1.3 Mock control WN challenge Diluent <10 3/4 (75%) 4/4 (100%) 4.0 YF challenge Diluent <10 1/4 (25%) 4/4 (100%) 8.4 JE challenge Diluent <10 2/5 (40%) 2/5 (40%) 3.0 ¹Syrian hamsters, SC inoculation (d 0, and d 21 in select groups); challenge (d 39): wt WN NY385/99 6 log₁₀ PFU IP, wt JE Nakayama 5.8 log₁₀ PFU IC, or hamster-adapted YF Asibi 7 log₁₀ PFU IP (McArthur et al., J. Virol. 77: 1462-1468, 2003; McArthur et al., Virus Res. 110: 65-71, 2005).

TABLE 5 Immunization of hamsters with PIV: comparison of SC and IP routes PRNT Day 20-21 Boost PRNT Day 34-38 Inoculums SC IP (log₁₀) SC IP PIV-WN 40 320 5 1280 1280 PIV-YF/WN 10 320 5 160 1280 PIV-WN/JE 10 80 5 40 640 PIV-YF <10 10 5 20 80

TABLE 6 Immune responses to PIV cocktails (mice)¹ PRNT Day 20 PRNT Day 34 Group Dose Anti-JE Anti-WN Anti-JE Anti-WN PIV-WN/JE + 10⁵ + 10⁵ 20 320 640 5120 RV-WN PIV-WN/JE alone 10⁵ 80 <10 160 20 PIV-WN alone 10⁵ <10 640 <10 5120 Mock — <10 <10 <10 <10 ¹C57/BL6 mice, IP inoculations on days 0 and 21; pooled serum PRNT liters.

TABLE 7 Neurovirulence (IC inoculation) and neuroinvasiveness (IP inoculation) of PIV-TBE and YF/TBE vaccine constructs in adult ICR mice Neurovirulence (IC route) Neuroinvasiveness (IP route) Dose(s) Mortality AST, Dose(s) Mortality AST, Construct (log₁₀) (%) days¹ (log₁₀) (%) days¹ PIV-Hypr p39 5 0/7 (0%) na 5 0/16 (0%) na PIV-Hypr p40 5 0/6 (0%) na 5 0/16 (0%) na YF/Hypr p42 4 8/8 (100%) 6.3 5 6/8 (75%) 13.3 3 8/8 (100%) 6.4 2 8/8 (100%) 7.4 YF/LGT p43 4 8/8 (100%) 7.9 5 0/8 (0%) na 3 8/8 (100%) 7.6 2 8/8 (100%) 8.4 YF/Hypr p45 4 8/8 (100%) 6.1 5 5/8 (62.5%) 11.2 3 8/8 (100%) 6.6 2 8/8 (100%) 6.8 YF/Hypr dC2 p59 4 8/8 (100%) 6.6 5 0/8 (0%) na 3 8/8 (100%) 7.4 2 8/8 (100%) 8.1 YF 17D 3 8/8 (100%) 9  5 0/8 (0%) na 2 7/8 (87.5%) 9.6 1 4/8 (50%) 10   Mock (diluent) none 0/8 (0%) na none 0/8 (0%) na ¹AST for mice that died.

TABLE 8 Neutralizing antibody titers (PRNT₅₀) in mice immunized IP (determined against wt TBE virus Hypr), and protection from challenge (postchallenge observation, day 9) Postchallenge Dose(s), PRNT₅₀ titer, PRNT₅₀ mortality (%) Immunogen log₁₀ individ. samples¹ GMT on day 9² PIV-Hypr p39, 1 dose 5 1746 (2) 665 0/8 (0%) 1187 (2) 164 (2) 574 (2) PIV-Hypr p39, 2 doses 5 + 5 16229 (2) 10,584 0/8 (0%) 12928 (2) 12927 (2) 4627 (2) PIV-Hypr p40, 1 dose 5 <10 (2) 15 6/8 (75%) <10 (2) 18 (2) 33 (2) PIV-Hypr p40, 2 doses 5 + 5 169 (2) 153 1/8 (12.5%) 638 (2) 26 (2) 192 (2) YF/Hypr p42 5 9210 (1) 6,085 0/2 (0%) 4020 (1) YF/LGT p43 5 123 (2) 64 1/8 (12.5%) 32 (2) 96 (2) 45 (2) YF/Hypr p45 5 292 (2) 68 0/3 (0%) 16 (1) YF/Hypr dC2 p59 5 194 (2) 68 0/8 (0%) 93 (2) 45 (2) 26 (2) Killed human TBE vaccine, 1 1/20 19 (2) 12 1/8 (12.5%) dose (at 1/20 <10 (2) of human dose) 13 (2) <10 (2) Killed human TBE vaccine, 2 1/20 + 1/20 3435 (2) 1,496 0/6 (0%) doses (each at 1/20 1267 (2) of human dose) 770 (2) YF 17D control 5 <10 (4) <10 5/8 (62.5%) 11 (4) Mock none <10 (4) <10 4/8 (50%) <10 (4) ¹Numbers in parenthesis correspond to number of mice in each pooled serum sample tested. ²Mortalities on day 9 are shown.

TABLE 9 Examples of published attenuating E protein mutations that can be used for attenuation of chimeric TBE LAV candidates Residue Domain Comments Attenuation in Reference N52R II DI-DII hinge, possibly involved in hinge JE, YF Hasegawa et al, 1992, motion required for fusion activation Schlesinger et al, 1996 E84K II conserved, E in TBE, K/R in others, TBE Labuda et al, 1994 attenuated by passage in Ixodes ricinus ticks, DII contains flavivirus cross reactive epitopes E85K II conserved, E in TBE, K/R in others, JE Wu et al, 1997 attenuation obtained as plaque variants in Vero cells, DII contains flavivirus cross reactive epitopes H104K II within highly conserved fusion peptide (aa TBE Rey et al, 1995 98-113), H in TBE, G in others L107F II within highly conserved fusion peptide (aa TBE, JE, WN Rey et al, 1995, Arroyo 98-113), L in all flaviviruses, F in attenuated et al, 1999, 2004 JE T123K II DI-DII hinge, T in TBE, A in KFD TBE Holzmann et al, 1997 K126E II DI-DII hinge, K in TBE, E in D-2 DEN2 Bray, 98 K136E II DI-DII hinge, K in TBE and JE, E in D-2 JE N154L(Y) I glycosylation site, packed with conserved H DEN2, DEN4, YF Guirakhoo et al, 1993, Pletnev et 104, involved in fusion. al, 1993, Kawano et al, 1993, Jennings et al, 1994 K171E I external edge of DI, involved in fusion TBE Mandl, 1989, Holzmann, 1997 I173T external edge of Dl, involved in fusion YF Chambers and Nickells 2001 D181Y DI-DII hinge TBE Holzmann et al, 1997 K204R Lining Hydrophobic pocket, involve in DEN1, DEN3 Guirakhoo et al, 2004 fusion P272S II highly conserved, junction of one the of 2 JE Cecilia et al, 1991 alpha helices G308N III cell attachment, DKT in TBE, EGS in KFD, T- LI Jiang et al, 1993, Gao et al, 1994 X in others, change to N produced glycosylation site in LI and reduced virulence N-X-T/S glycosylation motif S310K III putative cell attachment, change from E to JE Jiang et al, 1993, Gao et al, 1994 G in JE reduced virulence Wu et al, 1997 K311E III highly conserved, putative cell attachment TBE, YF Rey et al, 1995, Jennings, 1994 T333L III putative cell attachment YF, LGT Raynman et al, 1998 G334K III putative cell attachment YF Chambers and Nickells, 2001 S335K III putative cell attachment JE Wu et al, 1997 K336D III putative cell attachment JE Cecilia and Gould, 1991 P337D III putative cell attachment JE Cecilia and Gould, 1991 G368R III putative cell attachment TBE, JE Holzman et al 1997, Hasegawa et al 1992 Y384H III change to H attenuated TBE, putative cell TBE Holzmann et al, 1990 attachment, −3 position to deleted RGD in TBE V385R III conserved, −2 position to deleted RGD in D2 Hiramatsu et al, 1996, TBE, putative cell attachment Lobigs, 1990 G386R III highly conserved, −1 position to deleted D2, MVE Hiramatsu, 1996, Lobigs et al, RGD in TBE, putative cell attachment 1990 E387R III conserved, +2 position to deleted RGD in D2, MVE Hiramatsu, 1996, Lobigs et al, TBE, putative cell attachment 1990 F403K none highly conserved, C-terminal region not D-2, D-4 Kawano et al, 1993, Bray et al, included in crystal structure sE 1998 H438Y None highly conserved, C-terminal region not LGT Campbell and Pletnev 2000 included in crystal structure sE H496R none highly conserved, C-terminal region not TBE Gritsun et al, 2001 included in crystal structure sE References: Hasegawa et al., Virology 191(1): 158-165; Schlesinger et al., J. Gen. Virol. 1996, 77 (Pt 6): 1277-1285, 1996; Labuda et al., Virus Res. 31(3): 305-315, 1994; Wu et al., Virus Res. 51(2): 173-181, 1997; Holzmann et al., J. Gen. Virol. 78 (Pt 1): 31-37, 1997; Bray et al., J. Virol. 72(2): 1647-1651, 1998; Guirakhoo et al., Virology 194(1): 219-223, 1993; Pletnev et al., J. Virol. 67(8): 4956-4963, 1993; Kawano et al., J. Virol. 67(11): 6567-6575, 1993; Jennings et al., J. Infect. Dis. 169(3): 512-518, 1994; Mandl et al., J. Virol. 63(2): 564-571, 1989; Chambers et al., J. Virol. 75(22): 10912-10922, 2001; Cecilia et al., Virology 181(1): 70-77, 1991; Jiang et al., J. Gen. Virol. 74 (Pt 5): 931-935, 1993; Gao et al., J. Gen. Virol. 75 (Pt 3): 609-614, 1994; Holzmann et al., J. Virol. 64(10): 5156-5159, 1990; Hiramatsu et al., Virology 224(2): 437-445, 1996; Lobigs et al., Virology 176(2): 587-595, 1990; Campbell et al., Virology 269(1): 225-237, 2000; Gritsun et al., J. Gen. Virol. 82(Pt 7): 1667-1675, 2001.

SEQUENCE APPENDIX 1 CV-TBEV Hypr or CV-LGT E5 with YFV/TBEV chimeric signal (p42, p59, and p43 constructs)                          YF17D partial signal               ---------------------------------------                                                        TBEV partial signal                                                      --------------------------                                                                                 Hypr or LGT ES C protein YF17D                                                                 protein prM --------------                                                                  -------------  R   K  R  R   S  H  D   V  L  T  V   Q  F  L   I  L  G   M  L  G  M   T  I  A   A  T  V   R 401 A GGAAACGCCG TTCCCATGAT GTTCTGACTG TGCAATTCCT AATTTTGGGC ATGCTGGGCA TGACAATCGC AGCTACGGTT CGC T CCTTTGCGGC AAGGGTACTA CAAGACTGAC ACGTTAAGGA TTAAAACCCG TACGACCCGT ACTGTTAGCG TCGATGCCAA GCG CV-TBEV Hypr with YFV/WNV chimeric signal (p45) C protein YF17D                                         WNV partial signal --------------                                        --------------------------                                                                                    Hypr prM                   YF 17D partial signal                                             protein               ----------------------------------------                          -------------  R   K  R  R   S  H  D   V  L  T  V   Q  F  L   I  L  G   M  L  A  C   V  G  A   A  T  V   R 401 A GGAAACGCCG TTCCCATGAT GTTCTGACTG TGCAATTCCT AATTTTGGGC ATGCTGGCTT GTGTCGGAGC AGCTACCGTG CGA T CCTTTGCGGC AAGGGTACTA CAAGACTGAC ACGTTAAGGA TTAAAACCCG TACGACCGAA CACAGCCTCG TCGATGGCAC GCT RV-WNV/TBEV Hypr with TBEV signal (p39)                                      TBEV signal              ------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                 Hypr prM WNV C protein                                                                   protein -------------                                                                  -------------  Q  K  K   R  G  G  T   D  W  M   S  W  L   L  V  I  G   M  L  G   M  T  I   A  A  T  V   R 201 CAAAAGAAA CGGGGGGGAA CAGACTGGAT GAGCTGGCTG CTCGTAATCG GCATGCTGGG CATGACAATC GCAGCTACGG TTCGC GTTTTCTTT GCCCCCCCTT GTCTGACCTA CTCGACCGAC GAGCATTAGC CGTACGACCC GTACTGTTAG CGTCGATGCC AAGCG RV-WNV/TBEV Hypr with WNV signal (p40)                                    WNV signal              -----------------------------------------------------------                                                                             Hypr WNV C protein                                                            prM protein -------------                                                           -------------  Q  K  K   R  G  G  K   T  G  I   A  V  M   I  G  M  L   A  C  V   G  A  A   T  V  R 201 CAAAAGAAA CGCGGGGGAA AGACAGGCAT AGCTGTGATG ATAGGCATGC TGGCTTGTGT CGGAGCAGCT ACCGTGCGA GTTTTCTTT GCGCCCCCTT TCTGTCCGTA TCGACACTAC TATCCGTACG ACCGAACACA GCCTCGTCGA TGGCACGCT

SEQUENCE APPENDIX 2 CV-TBEV Hypr with YFV/TBEV chimeric signal (p42)                                                5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAAATCCT GTGTGCTAAT TGAGGTGCAT TGGTCTGCAA ATCGAGTTGC TAGGCAATAA ACACATTTGG ATTAATTTTA TCATTTAGGA CACACGATTA ACTCCACGTA ACCAGACGTT TAGCTCAACG ATCCGTTATT TGTGTAAACC TAATTAAAAT       5′ UTR --------------------- ATCGTTCGTT GAGCGATTAG TAGCAAGCAA CTCGCTAATC       5′ UTR -------------------                                                        C protein                    ---------------------------------------------------------------------                     M   S  G  R   K  A  Q  G   K  T  L   G  V  N   M  V  R  R   G  V  R 101 CAGAGAACTG ACCAGAACAT GTCTGGTCGT AAAGCTCAGG GAAAAACCCT GGGCGTCAAT ATGGTACGAC GAGGAGTTCG GTCTCTTGAC TGGTCTTGTA CAGACCAGCA TTTCGAGTCC CTTTTTGGGA CCCGCAGTTA TACCATGCTG CTCCTCAAGC     C protein ---------------------   S  L  S   N  K  I  K • CTCCTTGTCA AACAAAATAA GAGGAACAGT TTGTTTTATT                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  K  T   K  Q  I   G  N  R  P   G  P  S   R  G  V   Q  G  F  I   F  F  F   L  F  N 201 AACAAAAAAC AAAACAAATT GGAAACAGAC CTGGACCTTC AAGAGGTGTT CAAGGATTTA TCTTTTTCTT TTTGTTCAAC TTGTTTTTTG TTTTGTTTAA CCTTTGTCTG GACCTGGAAG TTCTCCACAA GTTCCTAAAT AGAAAAAGAA AAACAAGTTG     C protein ---------------------  I  L  T  G   K  K  I • ATTTTGACTG GAAAAAAGAT TAAAACTGAC CTTTTTTCTA                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  A  H   L  K  R  L   W  K  M   L  D  P   R  Q  G  L   A  V  L   R  K  V   K  R  V  V 301 CACAGCCCAC CTAAAGAGGT TGTGGAAAAT GCTGGACCCA AGACAAGGCT TGGCTGTTCT AAGGAAAGTC AAGAGAGTGG GTGTCGGGTG GATTTCTCCA ACACCTTTTA CGACCTGGGT TCTGTTCCGA ACCGACAAGA TTCCTTTCAG TTCTCTCACC     C protein ---------------------    A  S  L   M  R  G TGGCCAGTTT GATGAGAGGA ACCGGTCAAA CTACTCTCCT                                YF17D partial signal                        ---------------------------------------                                                                 THEV partial signal                                                               --------------------------       C protein -----------------------  L  S  S  R   K  R  R   S  H  D   V  L  T  V   Q  F  L   I  L  G   M  L  G  M   T  I  A 401 TTGTCCTCAA GGAAACGCCG TTCCCATGAT GTTCTGACTG TGCAATTCCT AATTTTGGGC ATGCTGGGCA TGACAATCGC AACAGGAGTT CCTTTGCGGC AAGGGTACTA CAAGACTGAC ACGTTAAGGA TTAAAACCCG TACGACCCGT ACTGTTAGCG      prM protein  ----------------------   A  T  V   R  K  E  R • AGCTACGGTT CGCAAGGAAA TCGATGCCAA GCGTTCCTTT                                             prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  D  G  S   T  V  I   R  A  E  G   K  D  A   A  T  Q   V  R  V  E   N  G  T   C  V  I 501 GAGACGGCAG TACGGTCATA CGCGCGGAAG GTAAGGATGC CGCTACCCAA GTGAGAGTGG AAAATGGTAC CTGCGTCATT CTCTGCCGTC ATGCCAGTAT GCGCGCCTTC CATTCCTACG GCGATGGGTT CACTCTCACC TTTTACCATG GACGCAGTAA      prM protein ---------------------  L  A  T  D   M  G  S • CTGGCCACCG ACATGGGCTC GACCGGTGGC TGTACCCGAG                                             prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • W  C  D   D  S  L  S   Y  E  C   V  T  I   D  Q  G  E   E  P  V   D  V  D   C  F  C  R 601 TTGGTGTGAT GATAGCCTTT CTTATGAGTG CGTAACCATA GATCAAGGTG AGGAACCTGT TGACGTTGAT TGCTTCTGCC AACCACACTA CTATCGGAAA GAATACTCAC GCATTGGTAT CTAGTTCCAC TCCTTGGACA ACTGCAACTA ACGAAGACGG      prM protein ---------------------    N  V  D   G  V  Y GAAACGTGGA TGGGGTGTAT CTTTGCACCT ACCCCACATA                                             prM protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  L  E  Y  G   R  C  G   K  Q  E   G  S  R  T   R  R  S   V  L  I   P  S  H  A   Q  G  E 701 CTCGAATATG GACGGTGTGG TAAACAAGAA GGAAGCAGAA CCAGACGCTC AGTGCTTATA CCCTCCCACG CTCAAGGAGA GAGCTTATAC CTGCCACACC ATTTGTTCTT CCTTCGTCTT GGTCTGCGAG TCACGAATAT GGGAGGGTGC GAGTTCCTCT      prM protein ---------------------   L  T  G   R  G  H  K • GCTGACCGGA CGGGGACATA CGACTGGCCT GCCCCTGTAT                                             prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  W  L  E   G  D  S   L  R  T  H   L  T  R   V  E  G   W  V  W  K   N  R  L   L  A  L 801 AATGGTTGGA GGGCGACTCA CTCCGAACAC ATTTGACCCG CGTCGAGGGC TGGGTCTGGA AAAATCGGCT GTTGGCCCTC TTACCAACCT CCCGCTGAGT GAGGCTTGTG TAAACTGGGC GCAGCTCCCG ACCCAGACCT TTTTAGCCGA CAACCGGGAG      prM protein ---------------------  A  M  V  T   V  V  W• GCTATGGTGA CAGTCGTTTG CGATACCACT GTCAGCAAAC                                                                                   Hypr E                                                                                   Protein                                                                              -----------                                prM protein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  T  L   E  S  V  V   T  R  V   A  V  L   V  V  L  L   C  L  A   P  V  Y   A  S  R  C 901 GCTCACGCTG GAGTCTGTGG TTACTCGCGT GGCAGTGCTG GTGGTGCTCC TCTGTCTTGC CCCTGTCTAC GCGTCCAGGT CGAGTGCGAC CTCAGACACC AATGAGCGCA CCGTCACGAC CACCACGAGG AGACAGAACG GGGACAGATG CGCAGGTCCA    Hypr E protein ---------------------    T  H  L   E  N  R GTACTCATTT GGAAAACAGA CATGAGTAAA CCTTTTGTCT                                             Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  F  V  T   G  T  Q   G  T  T   R  V  T  L   V  L  E   L  G  G   C  V  T  I   T  A  E 1001 GATTTTGTCA CCGGCACCCA GGGGACGACT CGGGTAACCC TGGTGCTTGA ACTGGGTGGT TGCGTTACTA TTACCGCTGA CTAAAACAGT GGCCGTGGGT CCCCTGCTGA GCCCATTGGG ACCACGAACT TGACCCACCA ACGCAATGAT AATGGCGACT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   G  K  P   S  M  D  V• GGGCAAACCC TCTATGGATG CCCGTTTGGG AGATACCTAC                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  W  L  D   A  I  Y   Q  E  N  P   A  Q  T   R  E  Y   C  L  H  A   K  L  S   D  T  K 1101 TGTGGCTGGA TGCAATCTAT CAGGAGAATC CCGCACAAAC CAGGGAATAT TGCCTTCACG CAAAGCTGTC CGATACAAAG ACACCGACCT ACGTTAGATA GTCCTCTTAG GGCGTGTTTG GTCCCTTATA ACGGAAGTGC GTTTCGACAG GCTATGTTTC   Hypr E protein ---------------------  V  A  A  R   C  P  T• GTCGCGGCTA GGTGCCCAAC CAGCGCCGAT CCACGGGTTG                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • M  G  P   A  T  L  A   E  E  H   Q  G  G   T  V  C  K   R  D  Q   S  D  R   G  W  G  N 1201 AATGGGACCG GCCACCCTGG CGGAGGAACA TCAGGGAGGT ACAGTGTGCA AACGGGACCA GAGTGATAGA GGCTGGGGTA TTACCCTGGC CGGTGGGACC GCCTCCTTGT AGTCCCTCCA TGTCACACGT TTGCCCTGGT CTCACTATCT CCGACCCCAT    Hypr E protein ---------------------    H  C  G   L  F  G ATCACTGCGG CCTGTTCGGC TAGTGACGCC GGACAAGCCG                                             Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  G  S  I   V  A  C   V  K  A   A  C  E  A   K  K  K   A  T  G   H  V  Y  D   A  N  K 1301 AAAGGAAGTA TTGTCGCTTG CGTCAAGGCA GCCTGTGAGG CCAAAAAGAA GGCTACTGGG CACGTCTATG ACGCCAACAA TTTCCTTCAT AACAGCGAAC GCAGTTCCGT CGGACACTCC GGTTTTTCTT CCGATGACCC GTGCAGATAC TGCGGTTGTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   I  V  Y   T  V  K  V• GATCGTTTAT ACAGTGAAAG CTAGCAAATA TGTCACTTTC                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  P  H   T  G  D   Y  V  A  A   N  E  T   H  S  G   R  K  T  A   S  F  T   V  S  S 1401 TGGAACCACA CACAGGGGAT TACGTGGCGG CCAACGAGAC TCATTCCGGT CGCAAAACGG CCAGCTTCAC CGTGTCATCC ACCTTGGTGT GTGTCCCCTA ATGCACCGCC GGTTGCTCTG AGTAAGGCCA GCGTTTTGCC GGTCGAAGTG GCACAGTAGG    Hypr E protein ---------------------  E  K  T  I   L  T  M• GAAAAGACCA TCCTCACTAT CTTTTCTGGT AGGAGTGATA                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  E  Y   G  D  V  S   L  L  C   R  V  A   S  G  V  D   L  A  Q   T  V  I   L  E  L  D 1501 GGGGGAGTAT GGCGACGTTT CTCTGCTCTG CCGGGTGGCT AGCGGAGTCG ACCTGGCCCA GACAGTCATC CTGGAACTGG CCCCCTCATA CCGCTGCAAA GAGACGAGAC GGCCCACCGA TCGCCTCAGC TGGACCGGGT CTGTCAGTAG GACCTTGACC    Hypr E protein ---------------------    K  T  V   E  H  L ATAAAACAGT TGAGCATCTG TATTTTGTCA ACTCGTAGAC                                             Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  P  T  A  W   Q  V  H   R  D  W   F  N  D  L   A  L  P   W  K  H   E  G  A  R   N  W  N 1601 CCTACCGCTT GGCAGGTGCA CAGGGATTGG TTTAACGACC TTGCCCTGCC ATGGAAACAT GAAGGAGCGA GAAACTGGAA GGATGGCGAA CCGTCCACGT GTCCCTAACC AAATTGCTGG AACGGGACGG TACCTTTGTA CTTCCTCGCT CTTTGACCTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   N  A  E   R  L  V  E• TAATGCAGAG CGACTCGTAG ATTACGTCTC GCTGAGCATC                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  F  G  A   P  H  A   V  K  M  D   V  Y  N   L  G  D   Q  T  G  V   L  L  K   A  L  A 1701 AATTCGGTGC CCCTCATGCC GTGAAGATGG ACGTCTACAA TCTGGGTGAT CAGACCGGCG TTCTCCTTAA AGCTCTCGCT TTAAGCCACG GGGAGTACGG CACTTCTACC TGCAGATGTT AGACCCACTA GTCTGGCCGC AAGAGGAATT TCGAGAGCGA    Hypr E protein ---------------------  G  V  P  V   A  H  I• GGCGTACCAG TTGCCCACAT CCGCATGGTC AACGGGTGTA                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  G  T   K  Y  H  L   K  S  G   H  V  T   C  E  V  G   L  E  K   L  K  M   K  G  L  T 1801 CGAAGGAACG AAGTACCACC TGAAGTCAGG CCATGTAACT TGCGAGGTGG GCCTGGAGAA GTTGAAAATG AAAGGTCTTA GCTTCCTTGC TTCATGGTGG ACTTCAGTCC GGTACATTGA ACGCTCCACC CGGACCTCTT CAACTTTTAC TTTCCAGAAT    Hypr E protein ---------------------    Y  T  M   C  D  K CGTACACAAT GTGTGACAAG GCATGTGTTA CACACTGTTC                                             Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  T  K  F  T   W  K  R   A  P  T   D  S  G  H   D  T  V   V  M  E   V  T  F  S   G  T  K 1901 ACCAAGTTCA CATGGAAGAG GGCCCCCACA GATAGCGGCC ACGATACTGT GGTGATGGAG GTGACCTTTT CTGGAACAAA TGGTTCAAGT GTACCTTCTC CCGGGGGTGT CTATCGCCGG TGCTATGACA CCACTACCTC CACTGGAAAA GACCTTGTTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   P  C  R   I  P  V  R• ACCCTGCAGA ATACCCGTGC TGGGACGTCT TATGGGCACG                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  V  A   H  G  S   P  D  V  N   V  A  M   L  I  T   P  N  P  T   I  E  N   N  G  G 2001 GGGCTGTAGC TCACGGATCT CCCGATGTCA ATGTTGCTAT GCTGATTACA CCTAACCCTA CCATCGAGAA TAACGGTGGT CCCGACATCG AGTGCCTAGA GGGCTACAGT TACAACGATA CGACTAATGT GGATTGGGAT GGTAGCTCTT ATTGCCACCA    Hypr E protein ---------------------  G  F  I  E   M  Q  L• GGTTTTATTG AGATGCAGCT CCAAAATAAC TCTACGTCGA                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • P  P   G   D  N  I  I   Y  V  G   E  L  S   Y  Q  W  F   Q  K  G   S  S  I   G  R  V  F 2101 TCCGCCAGGC GATAACATCA TCTACGTGGG CGAACTCTCT TACCAGTGGT TTCAGAAAGG GAGTTCAATT GGGCGGGTCT AGGCGGTCCG CTATTGTAGT AGATGCACCC GCTTGAGAGA ATGGTCACCA AAGTCTTTCC CTCAAGTTAA CCCGCCCAGA    Hypr E protein ---------------------    Q  K  T   K  K  G TCCAAAAAAC GAAGAAGGGA AGGTTTTTTG CTTCTTCCCT                                             Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  E  R  L   T  V  I   G  E  H   A  W  D  F   G  S  A   G  G  F   L  S  S  I   G  K  A 2201 ATCGAACGAT TGACGGTTAT CGGCGAGCAC GCATGGGATT TTGGTTCCGC AGGGGGATTC CTGTCTTCTA TTGGTAAGGC TAGCTTGCTA ACTGCCAATA GCCGCTCGTG CGTACCCTAA AACCAAGGCG TCCCCCTAAG GACAGAAGAT AACCATTCCG    Hypr E protein ---------------------  L  H  T  V  L  G  G• ACTGCATACC GTGCTGGGGG TGACGTATGG CACGACCCCC                                             Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  F  N   S  I  F   G  G  V  G   F  L  P   K  L  L   L  G  V  A   L  A  W   L  G  L 2301 GCGCATTCAA TTCTATTTTC GGGGGCGTGG GGTTCCTGCC TAAACTCCTG CTGGGAGTAG CCCTGGCCTG GTTGGGACTG CGCGTAAGTT AAGATAAAAG CCCCCGCACC CCAAGGACGG ATTTGAGGAC GACCCTCATC GGGACCGGAC CAACCCTGAC    Hypr E protein ---------------------  N   M  R  N   P  T  M• AATATGCGGA ATCCGACGAT TTATACGCCT TAGGCTGCTA                        Hypr E protein -------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                             NS1 gene                                                                             of YF17D                                                                    --------------------- • S  M  S   F  L  L  A   G  V  L   V  L  A   M  T  L  G   V  G  A   D  Q  G   C  A  I  N 2401 GTCCATGTCA TTCCTCTTGG CCGGCGTGCT TGTACTGGCC ATGACACTGG GCGTTGGCGC CGATCAAGGA TGCGCCATCA CAGGTACAGT AAGGAGAACC GGCCGCACGA ACATGACCGG TACTGTGACC CGCAACCGCG GCTAGTTCCT ACGCGGTAGT   NS1 gene of YF17D ---------------------    F  G  K   R  E  L ACTTTGGCAA GAGAGAGCTC TGAAACCGTT CTCTCTCGAG CV-TBEV Hypr with YFV/WNV chimeric signal (p45)                                                5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAAATCCT GTGTGCTAAT TGAGGTGCAT TGGTCTGCAA ATCGAGTTGC TAGGCAATAA ACACATTTGG ATTAATTTTA TCATTTAGGA CACACGATTA ACTCCACGTA ACCAGACGTT TAGCTCAACG ATCCGTTATT TGTGTAAACC TAATTAAAAT       5′ UTR --------------------- ATCGTTCGTT GAGCGATTAG TAGCAAGCAA CTCGCTAATC       5′ UTR -------------------                                                     C protein YF17D                    -------------------------------------------------------------------                    M   S  G  R   K  A  Q  G   K  T  L   G  V  N   M  V  R  R   G  V  R 101 CAGAGAACTG ACCAGAACAT GTCTGGTCGT AAAGCTCAGG GAAAAACCCT GGGCGTCAAT ATGGTACGAC GAGGAGTTCG GTCTCTTGAC TGGTCTTGTA CAGACCAGCA TTTCGAGTCC CTTTTTGGGA CCCGCAGTTA TACCATGCTG CTCCTCAAGC    C protein YF17D -----------------------   S  L  S   N  K  I  K• CTCCTTGTCA AACAAAATAA GAGGAACAGT TTGTTTTATT                                           C protein YF17D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  K  T   K  Q  I   G  N  R  P   G  P  S   R  G  V   Q  G  F  I   F  F  F   L  F  N 201 AACAAAAAAC AAAACAAATT GGAAACAGAC CTGGACCTTC AAGAGGTGTT CAAGGATTTA TCTTTTTCTT TTTGTTCAAC TTGTTTTTTG TTTTGTTTAA CCTTTGTCTG GACCTGGAAG TTCTCCACAA GTTCCTAAAT AGAAAAAGAA AAACAAGTTG    C protein YF17D ---------------------  I  L  T  G   K  K  I• ATTTTGACTG GAAAAAAGAT TAAAACTGAC CTTTTTTCTA                                           C protein YF17D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  A  H   L  K  R  L   W  K  M   L  D  P   R  Q  G  L   A  V  L  R  K  V   K  R  V  V 301 CACAGCCCAC CTAAAGAGGT TGTGGAAAAT GCTGGACCCA AGACAAGGCT TGGCTGTTCT AAGGAAAGTC AAGAGAGTGG GTGTCGGGTG GATTTCTCCA ACACCTTTTA CGACCTGGGT TCTGTTCCGA ACCGACAAGA TTCCTTTCAG TTCTCTCACC    C protein YF17D --------------------    A  S  L   M  R  G TGGCCAGTTT GATGAGAGGA ACCGGTCAAA CTACTCTCCT    C protein YF17D                                              WNV partial signal -----------------------                                        --------------------------                               YF 17D partial signal                        ----------------------------------------  L  S  S  R   K  R  R   S  H  D   V  L  T  V   Q  F  L   I  L  G   M  L  A  C   V  G  A 401 TTGTCCTCAA GGAAACGCCG TTCCCATGAT GTTCTGACTG TGCAATTCCT AATTTTGGGC ATGCTGGCTT GTGTCGGAGC AACAGGAGTT CCTTTGCGGC AAGGGTACTA CAAGACTGAC ACGTTAAGGA TTAAAACCCG TACGACCGAA CACAGCCTCG    Hypr prM protein ---------------------   A  T  V   R  K  E  R• AGCTACCGTG CGAAAAGAAC TCGATGGCAC GCTTTTCTTG                                            Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  D  G  S   T  V  I R  A  E  G   K  D  A   A  T  Q   V  R  V  E   N  G  T   C  V  I 501 GCGACGGAAG CACCGTGATA AGGGCTGAGG GTAAGGATGC GGCTACGCAG GTGAGAGTAG AGAATGGCAC TTGCGTAATA CGCTGCCTTC GTGGCACTAT TCCCGACTCC CATTCCTACG CCGATGCGTC CACTCTCATC TCTTACCGTG AACGCATTAT    Hypr prM protein ----------------------  L  A  T  D   M  G   S• CTCGCGACTG ATATGGGATC GAGCGCTGAC TATACCCTAG                                            Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • W  C  D   D  S  L  S   Y  E  C   V  T  I   D  Q  G  E   E  P  V   D  V  D   C  F  C  R 601 CTGGTGTGAC GATAGCCTCA GTTATGAATG CGTAACAATA GACCAGGGCG AAGAACCTGT GGACGTTGAC TGTTTCTGTA GACCACACTG CTATCGGAGT CAATACTTAC GCATTGTTAT CTGGTCCCGC TTCTTGGACA CCTGCAACTG ACAAAGACAT    Hypr prM protein ---------------------    N  V  D   G  V  Y GAAATGTGGA TGGCGTTTAT CTTTACACCT ACCGCAAATA                                            Hypr prM protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  L   E  Y  G   R  C  G   K  Q  E   G  S  R  T   R  R  S   V  L  I   P  S  H  A   Q  G  E 701 CTGGAGTACG GCCGCTGTGG AAAACAGGAG GGCTCACGAA CTCGAAGATC TGTGCTGATT CCAAGTCACG CGCAAGGAGA GACCTCATGC CGGCGACACC TTTTGTCCTC CCGAGTGCTT GAGCTTCTAG ACACGACTAA GGTTCAGTGC GCGTTCCTCT    Hypr prM protein ---------------------   L  T  G   R  G  H  K• GTTGACCGGT AGAGGCCACA CAACTGGCCA TCTCCGGTGT                                            Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  W  L  E   G  D  S   L  R  T  H   L  T  R   V  E  G   W  V  W  K   N  R  L   L  A  L 801 AGTGGCTTGA AGGGGACTCA TTGAGGACCC ACCTGACTAG GGTGGAGGGT TGGGTTTGGA AGAATCGGTT GCTCGCGCTC TCACCGAACT TCCCCTGAGT AACTCCTGGG TGGACTGATC CCACCTCCCA ACCCAAACCT TCTTAGCCAA CGAGCGCGAG    Hypr prM protein ---------------------  A  M  V  T   V  V  W• GCTATGGTCA CCGTCGTGTG CGATACCAGT GGCAGCACAC                               Hypr prM protein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                Hypr E                                                                                Protein                                                                               ---------- • L  T  L   E  S  V  V   T  R  V   A  V  L   V  V  L  L   C  L  A   P  V  Y   A  S  R  C 901 GCTGACACTG GAGAGTGTCG TGACTCGGGT TGCTGTGTTG GTTGTCCTCC TCTGTTTGGC CCCAGTGTAC GCGTCCAGGT CGACTGTGAC CTCTCACAGC ACTGAGCCCA ACGACACAAC CAACAGGAGG AGACAAACCG GGGTCACATG CGCAGGTCCA    Hypr E protein --------------------    T  H  L   E  N  R GTACTCATTT GGAAAACAGA CATGAGTAAA CCTTTTGTCT                                            Hypr E protein -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D   F  V  T   G  T  Q   G  T  T   R  V  T  L   V  L  E   L  G  G   C  V  T  I   T  A  E 1001 GATTTTGTCA CCGGCACCCA GGGGACGACT CGGGTAACCC TGGTGCTTGA ACTGGGTGGT TGCGTTACTA TTACCGCTGA CTAAAACAGT GGCCGTGGGT CCCCTGCTGA GCCCATTGGG ACCACGAACT TGACCCACCA ACGCAATGAT AATGGCGACT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   G  K  P   S  M  D  V• GGGCAAACCC TCTATGGATG CCCGTTTGGG AGATACCTAC                                            Hypr E protein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  W  L  D   A  I  Y   Q  E  N  P   A  Q  T   R  E  Y   C  L  H  A   K  L  S   D  T  K 1101 TGTGGCTGGA TGCAATCTAT CAGGAGAATC CCGCACAAAC CAGGGAATAT TGCCTTCACG CAAAGCTGTC CGATACAAAG ACACCGACCT ACGTTAGATA GTCCTCTTAG GGCGTGTTTG GTCCCTTATA ACGGAAGTGC GTTTCGACAG GCTATGTTTC    Hypr E protein ---------------------  V  A  A  R   C  P  T• GTCGCGGCTA GGTGCCCAAC CAGCGCCGAT CCACGGGTTG                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • M  G  P   A  T  L  A   E  E  H   Q  G  G   T  V  C  K   R  D  Q   S  D  R   G  W  G  N 1201 AATGGGACCG GCCACCCTGG CGGAGGAACA TCAGGGAGGT ACAGTGTGCA AACGGGACCA GAGTGATAGA GGCTGGGGTA TTACCCTGGC CGGTGGGACC GCCTCCTTGT AGTCCCTCCA TGTCACACGT TTGCCCTGGT CTCACTATCT CCGACCCCAT    Hypr E protein --------------------   H  C  G   L  F  G ATCACTGCGG CCTGTTCGGC TAGTGACGCC GGACAAGCCG                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  G  S  I   V  A  C   V  K  A   A  C  E  A   K  K  K   A  T  G   H  V  Y  D   A  N  K 1301 AAAGGAAGTA TTGTCGCTTG CGTCAAGGCA GCCTGTGAGG CCAAAAAGAA GGCTACTGGG CACGTCTATG ACGCCAACAA TTTCCTTCAT AACAGCGAAC GCAGTTCCGT CGGACACTCC GGTTTTTCTT CCGATGACCC GTGCAGATAC TGCGGTTGTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   I  V  Y   T  V  K  V• GATCGTTTAT ACAGTGAAAG CTAGCAAATA TGTCACTTTC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  P  H   T  G  D   Y V  A  A   N  E  T   H  S  G   R  K  T  A   S  T   V  S  S 1401 TGGAACCACA CACAGGGGAT TACGTGGCGG CCAACGAGAC TCATTCCGGT CGCAAAACGG CCAGCTTCAC CGTGTCATCC ACCTTGGTGT GTGTCCCCTA ATGCACCGCC GGTTGCTCTG AGTAAGGCCA GCGTTTTGCC GGTCGAAGTG GCACAGTAGG    Hypr E protein --------------------  E  K T  I   L  T  M• GAAAAGACCA TCCTCACTAT CTTTTCTGGT AGGAGTGATA                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  E  Y   G  D  V  S   L  L  C   R  V  A   S  G  V  D   L  A  Q   T  V  I   L  E  L  D 1501 GGGGGAGTAT GGCGACGTTT CTCTGCTCTG CCGGGTGGCT AGCGGAGTCG ACCTGGCCCA GACAGTCATC CTGGAACTGG CCCCCTCATA CCGCTGCAAA GAGACGAGAC GGCCCACCGA TCGCCTCAGC TGGACCGGGT CTGTCAGTAG GACCTTGACC    Hypr E protein ---------------------    K  T  V   E  H  L ATAAAACAGT TGAGCATCTG TATTTTGTCA ACTCGTAGAC                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  P  T  A  W   Q  V  H   R  D  W   F  N  D  L   A  L  P   W  K  H   E  G  A  R   N  W  N 1601 CCTACCGCTT GGCAGGTGCA CAGGGATTGG TTTAACGACC TTGCCCTGCC ATGGAAACAT GAAGGAGCGA GAAACTGGAA GGATGGCGAA CCGTCCACGT GTCCCTAACC AAATTGCTGG AACGGGACGG TACCTTTGTA CTTCCTCGCT CTTTGACCTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   N  A  E   R  L  V  E• TAATGCAGAG CGACTCGTAG ATTACGTCTC GCTGAGCATC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  F  G  A   P  H  A   V  K  M  D   V  Y  N   L  G  D   Q  T  G  V   L  L  K   A  L  A 1701 AATTCGGTGC CCCTCATGCC GTGAAGATGG ACGTCTACAA TCTGGGTGAT CAGACCGGCG TTCTCCTTAA AGCTCTCGCT TTAAGCCACG GGGAGTACGG CACTTCTACC TGCAGATGTT AGACCCACTA GTCTGGCCGC AAGAGGAATT TCGAGAGCGA    Hypr E protein ---------------------  G  V  P  V   A  H  I• GGCGTACCAG TTGCCCACAT CCGCATGGTC AACGGGTGTA                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  G  T   K  Y  H  L   K  S  G   H  V  T   C  E  V  G   L  E  K   L  K  M   K  G  L  T 1801 CGAAGGAACG AAGTACCACC TGAAGTCAGG CCATGTAACT TGCGAGGTGG GCCTGGAGAA GTTGAAAATG AAAGGTCTTA GCTTCCTTGC TTCATGGTGG ACTTCAGTCC GGTACATTGA ACGCTCCACC CGGACCTCTT CAACTTTTAC TTTCCAGAAT    Hypr E protein ---------------------    Y  T  M   C  D  K CGTACACAAT GTGTGACAAG GCATGTGTTA CACACTGTTC                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  T  K  F  T   W  K  R   A  P  T   D  S  G  H   D  T  V   V  M  E   V  T  F  S   G  T  K 1901 ACCAAGTTCA CATGGAAGAG GGCCCCCACA GATAGCGGCC ACGATACTGT GGTGATGGAG GTGACCTTTT CTGGAACAAA TGGTTCAAGT GTACCTTCTC CCGGGGGTGT CTATCGCCGG TGCTATGACA CCACTACCTC CACTGGAAAA GACCTTGTTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   P  C  R   I  P  V  R• ACCCTGCAGA ATACCCGTGC TGGGACGTCT TATGGGCACG                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  V  A   H  G  S   P  D  V  N   V  A  M   L  I  T   P  N  P  T   I  E  N   N  G  G 2001 GGGCTGTAGC TCACGGATCT CCCGATGTCA ATGTTGCTAT GCTGATTACA CCTAACCCTA CCATCGAGAA TAACGGTGGT CCCGACATCG AGTGCCTAGA GGGCTACAGT TACAACGATA CGACTAATGT GGATTGGGAT GGTAGCTCTT ATTGCCACCA    Hypr E protein ---------------------  G  F  I  E   M  Q  L• GGTTTTATTG AGATGCAGCT CCAAAATAAC TCTACGTCGA                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • P  P  G   D  N  I  I   Y  V  G   E  L  S   Y  Q  W  F   Q  K  G   S  S  I   G  R  V  F 2101 TCCGCCAGGC GATAACATCA TCTACGTGGG CGAACTCTCT TACCAGTGGT TTCAGAAAGG GAGTTCAATT GGGCGGGTCT AGGCGGTCCG CTATTGTAGT AGATGCACCC GCTTGAGAGA ATGGTCACCA AAGTCTTTCC CTCAAGTTAA CCCGCCCAGA    Hypr E protein ---------------------    Q  K  T   K  K  G TCCAAAAAAC GAAGAAGGGA AGGTTTTTTG CTTCTTCCCT                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  E  R  L   T  V  I   G  E  H   A  W  D  F   G  S  A   G  G  F   L  S  S  I   G  K  A 2201 ATCGAACGAT TGACGGTTAT CGGCGAGCAC GCATGGGATT TTGGTTCCGC AGGGGGATTC CTGTCTTCTA TTGGTAAGGC TAGCTTGCTA ACTGCCAATA GCCGCTCGTG CGTACCCTAA AACCAAGGCG TCCCCCTAAG GACAGAAGAT AACCATTCCG    Hypr E protein ---------------------   L  H  T   V  L  G  G• ACTGCATACC GTGCTGGGGG TGACGTATGG CACGACCCCC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  F  N   S  I  F   G  G  V  G   F  L  P   K  L  L   L  G  V  A   L  A  W   L  G  L 2301 GCGCATTCAA TTCTATTTTC GGGGGCGTGG GGTTCCTGCC TAAACTCCTG CTGGGAGTAG CCCTGGCCTG GTTGGGACTG CGCGTAAGTT AAGATAAAAG CCCCCGCACC CCAAGGACGG ATTTGAGGAC GACCCTCATC GGGACCGGAC CAACCCTGAC    Hypr E protein ---------------------  N  M  R  N   P  T  M• AATATGCGGA ATCCGACGAT TTATACGCCT TAGGCTGCTA                        Hypr E protein -------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                      NS1 gene of YF17D                                                                    --------------------- • S  M  S   F  L  L  A   G  V  L   V  L  A   M  T  L  G   V  G  A   D  Q  G   C  A  I  N 2401 GTCCATGTCA TTCCTCTTGG CCGGCGTGCT TGTACTGGCC ATGACACTGG GCGTTGGCGC CGATCAAGGA TGCGCCATCA CAGGTACAGT AAGGAGAACC GGCCGCACGA ACATGACCGG TACTGTGACC CGCAACCGCG GCTAGTTCCT ACGCGGTAGT   NS1 gene of YF17D ---------------------    F  G  K   R  E  L ACTTTGGCAA GAGAGAGCTC TGAAACCGTT CTCTCTCGAG CV-LGTV E5 with YFV/TBEV chimeric signal (p43)                                                5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAAATCCT GTGTGCTAAT TGAGGTGCAT TGGTCTGCAA ATCGAGTTGC TAGGCAATAA ACACATTTGG ATTAATTTTA TCATTTAGGA CACACGATTA ACTCCACGTA ACCAGACGTT TAGCTCAACG ATCCGTTATT TGTGTAAACC TAATTAAAAT       5′ UTR ------------------- ATCGTTCGTT GAGCGATTAG TAGCAAGCAA CTCGCTAATC       5′ UTR -------------------                                                     C protein YF17D                    ---------------------------------------------------------------------                     M   S  G  R   K  A  Q  G   K  T  L   G  V  N   M  V  R  R   G  V  R 101 CAGAGAACTG ACCAGAACAT GTCTGGTCGT AAAGCTCAGG GAAAAACCCT GGGCGTCAAT ATGGTACGAC GAGGAGTTCG GTCTCTTGAC TGGTCTTGTA CAGACCAGCA TTTCGAGTCC CTTTTTGGGA CCCGCAGTTA TACCATGCTG CTCCTCAAGC  C protein YF17D ---------------------   S  L  S   N  K  I  K• CTCCTTGTCA AACAAAATAA GAGGAACAGT TTGTTTTATT                                           C protein YF17D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  K  T   K  Q  I   G  N  R  P   G  P  S   R  G  V   Q  G  F  I   F  F  F   L  F  N 201 AACAAAAAAC AAAACAAATT GGAAACAGAC CTGGACCTTC AAGAGGTGTT CAAGGATTTA TCTTTTTCTT TTTGTTCAAC TTGTTTTTTG TTTTGTTTAA CCTTTGTCTG GACCTGGAAG TTCTCCACAA GTTCCTAAAT AGAAAAAGAA AAACAAGTTG  C protein YF17D ---------------------  I  L  T  G   K  K  I• ATTTTGACTG GAAAAAAGAT TAAAACTGAC CTTTTTTCTA                                           C protein YF17D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  A  H   L  K  R  L   W  K  M   L  D  P   R  Q  G  L   A  V  L   R  K  V   K  R  V  V 301 CACAGCCCAC CTAAAGAGGT TGTGGAAAAT GCTGGACCCA AGACAAGGCT TGGCTGTTCT AAGGAAAGTC AAGAGAGTGG GTGTCGGGTG GATTTCTCCA ACACCTTTTA CGACCTGGGT TCTGTTCCGA ACCGACAAGA TTCCTTTCAG TTCTCTCACC  C protein YF17D ---------------------    A  S  L   M  R  G TGGCCAGTTT GATGAGAGGA ACCGGTCAAA CTACTCTCCT    C protein YF17D                                                TBEV partial signal --------------------                                           -------------------------                                YF 17D partial signal                      ----------------------------------------  L  S  S  R   K  R  R   S  H  D   V  L  T  V   Q  F  L   I  L  G   M  L  G  M   T  I  A 401 TTGTCCTCAA GGAAACGCCG TTCCCATGAT GTTCTGACTG TGCAATTCCT AATTTTGGGC ATGCTGGGGA TGACGATCGC AACAGGAGTT CCTTTGCGGC AAGGGTACTA CAAGACTGAC ACGTTAAGGA TTAAAACCCG TACGACCGAA ACTGCTAGCG prM protein Langat E5 ---------------------   A  T  V   R  R  E  R• AGCTACTGTG CGAAGGGAGA TCGATGGCAC GCTTCCCTCT                                        prM protein Langet E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •D  G  S   M  V  I   R  A  E  G   R  D  A   A  T  Q   V  R  V  E   N  G  T   C  V  I 501 GAGACGGCTC TATGGTGATC AGAGCCGAAG GTAGGGACGC TGCGACCCAG GTGAGGGTCG AAAATGGCAC CTGTGTTATT CTCTGCCGAG ATACCACTAG TCTCGGCTTC CATCCCTGCG ACGCTGGGTC CACTCCCAGC TTTTACCGTG GACACAATAA prM protein Langet E5 ---------------------  L  A  T  D   M  G  S• CTGGCGACCG ACATGGGCTC GACCGCTGGC TGTACCCGAG                                        prM protein Langet E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • W  C  D   D  S  L  A   Y  E  C   V  T  I   D  Q  G  E     P  V   D  V  D   C  F  C  R 601 CTGGTGTGAT GATTCTCTGG CTTATGAATG TGTTACTATT GATCAGGGTG AAGAGCCTGT GGACGTGGAC TGTTTCTGTA GACCACACTA CTAAGAGCC GAATACTTAC ACAATGATAA CTAGTCCCAC TTCTCGGACA CCTGCACCTG ACAAAGACAT prM protein Langet E5 ---------------------  G  V  E   K  V  T GAGGCGTCGA GAAAGTGACC CTCCGCAGCT CTTTCACTGG                                        prM protein Langat E5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  L  E  Y  G   R  C  G   R  R  E   G  S  R  S   R  R  S   V  L  I   P  S  H  A   Q  R  D 701 CTGGAATATG GACGATGTGG CCGGCGAGAA GGCTCCAGGA GTCGGAGATC CGTGTTGATC CCTTCACATG CGCAGCGCGA GACCTTATAC CTGCTACACC GGCCGCTCTT CCGAGGTCCT CAGCCTCTAG GCACAACTAG GGAAGTGTAC GCGTCGCGCT prM protein Langat E5 ---------------------   L  T  G   R  G  H  Q TCTGACAGGG AGGGGTCACC AGACTGTCCC TCCCCAGTGG                                        prM protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  W  L  E   G  E  A   V  K  A  H   L  T  R   V  E  G   W  V  W  K   N  K  L   F  T  L 801 AGTGGCTCGA AGGCGAAGCA GTCAAGGCCC ATCTGACTCG CGTTGAAGGC TGGGTGTGGA AAAACAAACT CTTTACCCTT TCACCGAGCT TCCGCTTCGT CAGTTCCGGG TAGACTGAGC GCAACTTCCG ACCCACACCT TTTTGTTTGA GAAATGGGAA prM protein Langat E5 ---------------------  S  L  V  M   V  A  W AGCCTGGTGA TGGTCGCGTG TCGGACCACT ACCAGCGCAC                           prM protein Langat E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                    E                                                                                    protein                                                                                    Langat                                                                                    E5                                                                                 -------- • L  M  V   D  G  L  L   P  R  I   L  I  V   V  V  A  L   A  L  A   P  A  Y   A  S  R  C 901 GCTGATGGTA GACGGACTCC TTCCCCGCAT TCTCATTGTT GTGGTGGCTC TCGCGCTCGC CCCTGCATAC GCGTCCAGGT CGACTACCAT CTGCCTGAGG AAGGGGCGTA AGAGTAACAA CACCACCGAG AGCGCGAGCG GGGACGTATG CGCAGGTCCA  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------    T  H  L   E  N  R GTACGCACCT CGAAAATCGA CATGCGTGGA GCTTTTAGCT                                         E protein Langat E5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  F  V  T   G  V  Q   G  T  T   R  L  T  L   V  L  E   L  G  G   C  V  T  V   T  A  D 1001 GATTTCGTCA CAGGCGTCCA AGGTACTACC CGGCTCACCC TCGTGCTGGA GCTGGGAGGC TGTGTCACTG TTACAGCCGA CTAAAGCAGT GTCCGCAGGT TCCATGATGG GCCGAGTGGG AGCACGACCT CGACCCTCCG ACACAGTGAC AATGTCGGCT  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------   G  K  P   S  L  D  V CGGAAAACCT AGTCTGGATG GCCTTTTGGA TCAGACCTAC                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  W  L  D   S  I  Y   Q  E  S  P   A  Q  T   R  E  Y   C  L  H  A   K  L  T   G  T  K 1101 TGTGGCTGGA CTCCATCTAT CAGGAGAGCC CGGCACAGAC CAGGGAGTAC TGCCTCCACG CTAAGCTGAC TGGGACAAAG ACACCGACCT GAGGTAGATA GTCCTCTCGG GCCGTGTCTG GTCCCTCATG ACGGAGGTGC GATTCGACTG ACCCTGTTTC  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------  V  A  A  R   C  P  T GTAGCCGCAA GATGTCCCAC CATCGGCGTT CTACAGGGTG                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • M  G  P   A  T  L  P   E  E  H   Q  S  G   T  V  C  K   R  D  Q   S  D  R   G  W  G  N 1201 AATGGGGCCT GCCACCTTGC CCGAGGAACA CCAATCCGGT ACGGTATGCA AGCGAGATCA GTCTGATCGC GGATGGGGGA TTACCCCGGA CGGTGGAACG GGCTCCTTGT GGTTAGGCCA TGCCATACGT TCGCTCTAGT CAGACTAGCG CCTACCCCCT  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------    H  C  G   L  F  G ATCATTGCGG CCTCTTCGGT TAGTAACGCC GGAGAAGCCA                                         E protein Langat E5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  G  S  I   V  T  C   V  K  V   T  C  E  D   K  K  K   A  T  G   H  V  Y  D   V  N  K 1301 AAAGGCAGCA TTGTCACTTG CGTGAAGGTG ACATGCGAGG ACAAGAAGAA GGCCACAGGT CATGTATATG ATGTGAACAA TTTCCGTCGT AACAGTGAAC GCACTTCCAC TGTACGCTCC TGTTCTTCTT CCGGTGTCCA GTACATATAC TACACTTGTT  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------   I  T  Y   T  I  K  V AATCACATAT ACCATTAAGG TTAGTGTATA TGGTAATTCC                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  P  H   T  G  E   F  V  A  A   N  E  T   H  S  G   R  K  S  A   S  F  T   V  S  S 1401 TAGAACCACA TACAGGGGAA TTCGTGGCAG CAAACGAGAC TCATAGCGGA CGAAAGTCCG CCTCCTTCAC CGTCTCCTCC ATCTTGGTGT ATGTCCCCTT AAGCACCGTC GTTTGCTCTG AGTATCGCCT GCTTTCAGGC GGAGGAAGTG GCAGAGGAGG  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------  E  K  T  I   L  T  L GAGAAAACAA TCCTGACCCT CTCTTTTGTT AGGACTGGGA                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  D  Y   G  D  V  S   L  L  C   R  V  A   S  G  V  D   L  A  Q   T  V  V   L  A  L  D 1501 CGGAGACTAC GGCGACGTAT CTTTGCTGTG CAGGGTGGCC AGCGGCGTGG ACCTTGCTCA GACAGTCGTG TTGGCCCTGG GCCTCTGATG CCGCTGCATA GAAACGACAC GTCCCACCGG TCGCCGCACC TGGAACGAGT CTGTCAGCAC AACCGGGACC  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------    K  T  H   E  H  L ACAAGACACA TGAGCACTTG TGTTCTGTGT ACTCGTGAAC                                         E protein Langat E5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  P  T  A  W   Q  V  H   R  D  W   F  N  D  L   A  L  P   W  K  H   D  G  A  E   A  W  N 1601 CCAACAGCCT GGCAGGTGCA CAGGGACTGG TTTAACGACC TGGCGCTCCC GTGGAAACAT GACGGCGCTG AAGCATGGAA GGTTGTCGGA CCGTCCACGT GTCCCTGACC AAATTGCTGG ACCGCGAGGG CACCTTTGTA CTGCCGCGAC TTCGTACCTT  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------   E  A  G   R  L  V  E TGAGGCAGGG AGACTGGTGG ACTCCGTCCC TCTGACCACC                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  F  G  T   P  H  A   V  K  M  D   V  F  N   L  G  D   Q  T  G  V   L  L  K   S  L  A 1701 AATTTGGAAC CCCACACGCC GTAAAGATGG ACGTTTTCAA TCTTGGTGAC CAGACAGGGG TGCTCCTGAA ATCACTGGCG TTAAACCTTG GGGTGTGCGG CATTTCTACC TGCAAAAGTT AGAACCACTG GTCTGTCCCC ACGAGGACTT TAGTGACCGC  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------  G  V  P  V   A  S  I • GGCGTGCCTG TAGCCAGCAT CCGCACGGAC ATCGGTCGTA                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  G  T   K  Y  H  L   K  S  G   H  V  T   C  E  V  G   L  E  K   L  K  M   K  G  L  T 1801 CGAGGGCACA AAGTATCACC TGAAGTCTGG GCATGTAACC TGCGAAGTGG GCCTGGAAAA GCTGAAGATG AAAGGACTTA GCTCCCGTGT TTCATAGTGG ACTTCAGACC CGTACATTGG ACGCTTCACC CGGACCTTTT CGACTTCTAC TTTCCTGAAT  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------    Y  T  V   C  D  K CGTACACTGT TTGTGATAAG GCATGTGACA AACACTATTC                                         E protein Langat E5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  T  K  F  T   W  K  R   A  P  T   D  S  G  H   D  T  V   V  M  E   V  G  F  S   G  T  R 1901 ACCAAGTTTA CATGGAAGCG AGCCCCAACG GATTCCGGCC ATGATACCGT CGTGATGGAG GTTGGTTTCT CCGGCACCAG TGGTTCAAAT GTACCTTCGC TCGGGGTTGC CTAAGGCCGG TACTATGGCA GCACTACCTC CAACCAAAGA GGCCGTGGTC  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------   P  C  R   I  P  V  R • ACCATGTAGA ATACCAGTGA TGGTACATCT TATGGTCACT                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  V  A   H  G  V   P  E  V  N   V  A  M   L  I  T   P  N  P  T   M  E  N   N  G  G 2001 GAGCTGTCGC CCACGGTGTA CCCGAGGTAA ACGTGGCCAT GCTGATTACA CCGAATCCCA CTATGGAGAA CAATGGCGGA CTCGACAGCG GGTGCCACAT GGGCTCCATT TGCACCGGTA CGACTAATGT GGCTTAGGGT GATACCTCTT GTTACCGCCT  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------  G  F  I  E   M  Q  L • GGGTTCATCG AAATGCAGCT CCCAAGTAGC TTTACGTCGA                                         E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • P  P  G   D  N  I  I   Y  V  G   D  L  D   H  Q  W  F   Q  K  G   S  S  I   G  R  V  L 2101 GCCGCCTGGA GACAACATCA TTTATGTCGG CGACCTCGAT CATCAATGGT TCCAGAAAGG GTCTTCCATC GGCCGCGTCC CGGCGGACCT CTGTTGTAGT AAATACAGCC GCTGGAGCTA GTAGTTACCA AGGTCTTTCC CAGAAGGTAG CCGGCGCAGG  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------    Q  K  T   R  K  G TTCAGAAGAC ACGAAAAGGC AAGTCTTCTG TGCTTTTCCG                                         E protein Langat E5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  E  R  L   T  V  L   G  E  H   A  W  D  F   G  S  V   G  G  V   M  T  S  I   G  R  A 2201 ATTGAAAGAC TTACAGTCCT GGGCGAACAT GCCTGGGACT TCGGGTCAGT TGGCGGGGTA ATGACAAGCA TAGGCAGAGC TAACTTTCTG AATGTCAGGA CCCGCTTGTA CGGACCCTGA AGCCCAGTCA ACCGCCCCAT TACTGTTCGT ATCCGTCTCG  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------   M  H  T   V  L  G  G • TATGCACACC GTTCTCGGTG ATACGTGTGG CAAGAGCCAC                                        E protein Langat E5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  F  N   T  L  L   G  G  V  G   F  L  P   K  I  L   L  G  V  A   M  A  W   L  G  L 2301 GGGCATTTAA TACTCTGTTG GGTGGCGTGG GTTTTCTTCC GAAAATCCTG CTCGGTGTCG CAATGGCCTG GCTTGGACTG CCCGTAAATT ATGAGACAAC CCACCGCACC CAAAAGAAGG CTTTTAGGAC GAGCCACAGC GTTACCGGAC CGAACCTGAC  E protein Langat E5 ---------------------  N  M  R  N   P  T  L • AATATGCGCA ATCCTACACT TTATACGCGT TAGGATGTGA                      E protein Langat E5 -------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                           NS1 gene                                                                           of YF17D                                                                    --------------------- • S  M  G   F  L  L  S   G  G  L   V  L  A   M  T  L  G   V  G  A   D  Q  G   C  A  I  N 2401 GAGTATGGGG TTTCTTCTGT CAGGAGGCCT GGTCCTGGCA ATGACTCTGG GAGTGGGCGC CGATCAAGGA TGCGCCATCA CTCATACCCC AAAGAAGACA GTCCTCCGGA CCAGGACCGT TACTGAGACC CTCACCCGCG GCTAGTTCCT ACGCGGTAGT   NS1 gene of YF17D ---------------------    F  G  K   R  E  L ACTTTGGCAA GAGAGAGCTC TGAAACCGTT CTCTCTCGAG CV-TBEV Hypr with YFV/TBEV chimeric signal and dC2 deletion in C protein (p59)                                                5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAAATCCT GTGTGCTAAT TGAGGTGCAT TGGTCTGCAA ATCGAGTTGC TAGGCAATAA ACACATTTGG ATTAATTTTA TCATTTAGGA CACACGATTA ACTCCACGTA ACCAGACGTT TAGCTCAACG ATCCGTTATT TGTGTAAACC TAATTAAAAT       5′ UTR --------------------- ATCGTTCGTT GAGCGATTAG TAGCAAGCAA CTCGCTAATC       5′ UTR -------------------                                                        C protein                    ---------------------------------------------------------------------                     M   S  G  R   K  A  Q  G   K  T  L   G  V  N   M  V  R  R   G  V  R 101 CAGAGAACTG ACCAGAACAT GTCTGGTCGT AAAGCTCAGG GAAAAACCCT GGGCGTCAAT ATGGTACGAC GAGGAGTTCG GTCTCTTGAC TGGTCTTGTA CAGACCAGCA TTTCGAGTCC CTTTTTGGGA CCCGCAGTTA TACCATGCTG CTCCTCAAGC     C protein ---------------------   S  L  S   N  K  I  K• CTCCTTGTCA AACAAAATAA GAGGAACAGT TTGTTTTATT                                       dC2 deletion (PSR)                                       -                                             C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  K  T   K  Q  I   G  N  R  P   G  G  V   Q  G  F   I  F  F  F   L  F  N   I  L  T 201 AACAAAAAAC AAAACAAATT GGAAACAGAC CTGGAGGTGT TCAAGGATTT ATCTTTTTCT TTTTGTTCAA CATTTTGACT TTGTTTTTTG TTTTGTTTAA CCTTTGTCTG GACCTCCACA AGTTCCTAAA TAGAAAAAGA AAAACAAGTT GTAAAACTGA     C protein ---------------------  G  K  K  I   T  A  H• GGAAAAAAGA TCACAGCCCA CCTTTTTTCT AGTGTCGGGT                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  K  R   L  W  K  M   L  D  P   R  Q  G   L  A  V  L   R  K  V   K  R  V   V  A  S  L 301 CCTAAAGAGG TTGTGGAAAA TGCTGGACCC AAGACAAGGC TTGGCTGTTC TAAGGAAAGT CAAGAGAGTG GTGGCCAGTT GGATTTCTCC AACACCTTTT ACGACCTGGG TTCTGTTCCG AACCGACAAG ATTCCTTTCA GTTCTCTCAC CACCGGTCAA     C protein ---------------------    M  R  G   L  S  S TGATGAGAGG ATTGTCCTCA ACTACTCTCC TAACAGGAGT                      YF17D partial signal              ---------------------------------------                                                        TBEV partial signal                                                     --------------------------                                                                                 Hypr prM  C protein                                                                       protein -------------                                                                  ---------  R  K  R  R   S  H  D   V  L  T   V  Q  F  L   I  L  G   M  L  G   M  T  I  A   A  T  V 401 AGGAAACGCC GTTCCCATGA TGTTCTGACT GTGCAATTCC TAATTTTGGG CATGCTGGGC ATGACAATCG CAGCTACGGT TCCTTTGCGG CAAGGGTACT ACAAGACTGA CACGTTAAGG ATTAAAACCC GTACGACCCG TACTGTTAGC GTCGATGCCA    Hypr prM protein ---------------------   R  K  E   R  D  G  S• TCGCAAGGAA AGAGACGGCA AGCGTTCCTT TCTCTGCCGT                                           Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  V  I   R  A  E   G  K  D  A   A  T  Q   V  R  V   E  N  G  T   C  V  I   L  A  T 501 GTACGGTCAT ACGCGCGGAA GGTAAGGATG CCGCTACCCA AGTGAGAGTG GAAAATGGTA CCTGCGTCAT TCTGGCCACC CATGCCAGTA TGCGCGCCTT CCATTCCTAC GGCGATGGGT TCACTCTCAC CTTTTACCAT GGACGCAGTA AGACCGGTGG    Hypr prM protein ---------------------  D  M  G  S   W  C  D• GACATGGGCT CTTGGTGTGA CTGTACCCGA GAACCACACT                                           Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  S  L   S  Y  E  C   V  T  I   D  Q  G   E  E  P  V   D  V  D   C  F  C   R  N  V  D 601 TGATAGCCTT TCTTATGAGT GCGTAACCAT AGATCAAGGT GAGGAACCTG TTGACGTTGA TTGCTTCTGC CGAAACGTGG ACTATCGGAA AGAATACTCA CGCATTGGTA TCTAGTTCCA CTCCTTGGAC AACTGCAACT AACGAAGACG GCTTTGCACC    Hypr prM protein ---------------------    G  V  Y   L  E  Y ATGGGGTGTA TCTCGAATAT TACCCCACAT AGAGCTTATA                                            Hypr prM protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  G  R  C  G   K  Q  E   G  S  R   T  R  R  S   V  L  I   P  S  H   A  Q  G  E   L  T  G 701 GGACGGTGTG GTAAACAAGA AGGAAGCAGA ACCAGACGCT CAGTGCTTAT ACCCTCCCAC GCTCAAGGAG AGCTGACCGG CCTGCCACAC CATTTGTTCT TCCTTCGTCT TGGTCTGCGA GTCACGAATA TGGGAGGGTG CGAGTTCCTC TCGACTGGCC    Hypr prM protein ---------------------   R  G  H   K  W  L  E• ACGGGGACAT AAATGGTTGG TGCCCCTGTA TTTACCAACC                                            Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  G  D  S   L  R  T   H  L  T  R   V  E  G   W  V  W   K  N  R  L   L  A  L   A  M  V 801 AGGGCGACTC ACTCCGAACA CATTTGACCC GCGTCGAGGG CTGGGTCTGG AAAAATCGGC TGTTGGCCCT CGCTATGGTG TCCCGCTGAG TGAGGCTTGT GTAAACTGGG CGCAGCTCCC GACCCAGACC TTTTTAGCCG ACAACCGGGA GCGATACCAC    Hypr prM protein ---------------------  T  V  V  W   L  T  L• ACAGTCGTTT GGCTCACGCT TGTCAGCAAA CCGAGTGCGA                                                                              Hypr E                                                                              protein                                                                       ------------------                          Hypr prM protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  S  V   V  T  R  V   A  V  L   V  V  L   L  C  L  A   P  V  Y   A  S  R   C  T  H  L 901 GGAGTCTGTG GTTACTCGCG TGGCAGTGCT GGTGGTGCTC CTCTGTCTTG CCCCTGTCTA CGCGTCCAGG TGTACTCATT CCTCAGACAC CAATGAGCGC ACCGTCACGA CCACCACGAG GAGACAGAAC GGGGACAGAT GCGCAGGTCC ACATGAGTAA    Hypr E protein ---------------------    E  N  R   D  F  V TGGAAAACAG AGATTTTGTC ACCTTTTGTC TCTAAAACAG                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  T  G  T  Q   G  T  T   R  V  T   L  V  L  E   L  G  G   C  V  T   I  T  A  E   G  K  P 1001 ACCGGCACCC AGGGGACGAC TCGGGTAACC CTGGTGCTTG AACTGGGTGG TTGCGTTACT ATTACCGCTG AGGGCAAACC TGGCCGTGGG TCCCCTGCTG AGCCCATTGG GACCACGAAC TTGACCCACC AACGCAATGA TAATGGCGAC TCCCGTTTGG    Hypr E protein ---------------------   S  M  D   V  W  L  D• CTCTATGGAT GTGTGGCTGG GAGATACCTA CACACCGACC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  I  Y   Q  E  N   P  A  Q  T   R  E  Y   C  L  H   A  K  L  S   D  T  K   V  A  A 1101 ATGCAATCTA TCAGGAGAAT CCCGCACAAA CCAGGGAATA TTGCCTTCAC GCAAAGCTGT CCGATACAAA GGTCGCGGCT TACGTTAGAT AGTCCTCTTA GGGCGTGTTT GGTCCCTTAT AACGGAAGTG CGTTTCGACA GGCTATGTTT CCAGCGCCGA    Hypr E protein ---------------------  R  C  P  T   M  G  P• AGGTGCCCAA CAATGGGACC TCCACGGGTT GTTACCCTGG                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • A  T  L   A  E  E  H   Q  G  G   T  V  C   K  R  D  Q   S  D  R   G  W  G   N  H  C  G 1201 GGCCACCCTG GCGGAGGAAC ATCAGGGAGG TACAGTGTGC AAACGGGACC AGAGTGATAG AGGCTGGGGT AATCACTGCG CCGGTGGGAC CGCCTCCTTG TAGTCCCTCC ATGTCACACG TTTGCCCTGG TCTCACTATC TCCGACCCCA TTAGTGACGC    Hypr E protein ---------------------    L  F  G   K  G  S GCCTGTTCGG CAAAGGAAGT CGGACAAGCC GTTTCCTTCA                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  V  A  C   V  K  A   A  C  E   A  K  K  K   A  T  G   H  V  Y   D  A  N  K   I  V  Y 1301 ATTGTCGCTT GCGTCAAGGC AGCCTGTGAG GCCAAAAAGA AGGCTACTGG GCACGTCTAT GACGCCAACA AGATCGTTTA TAACAGCGAA CGCAGTTCCG TCGGACACTC CGGTTTTTCT TCCGATGACC CGTGCAGATA CTGCGGTTGT TCTAGCAAAT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   T  V  K   V  E  P  H• TACAGTGAAA GTGGAACCAC ATGTCACTTT CACCTTGGTG                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  G  D   Y  V  A   A  N  E  T   H  S  G   R  K  T   A  S  F  T   V  S  S   E  K  T 1401 ACACAGGGGA TTACGTGGCG GCCAACGAGA CTCATTCCGG TCGCAAAACG GCCAGCTTCA CCGTGTCATC CGAAAAGACC TGTGTCCCCT AATGCACCGC CGGTTGCTCT GAGTAAGGCC AGCGTTTTGC CGGTCGAAGT GGCACAGTAG GCTTTTCTGG    Hypr E protein ---------------------  I  L  T  M   G  E  Y• ATCCTCACTA TGGGGGAGTA TAGGAGTGAT ACCCCCTCAT                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  D  V   S  L  L  C   R  V  A   S  G  V   D  L  A  Q   T  V  I   L  E  L   D  K  T  V 1501 TGGCGACGTT TCTCTGCTCT GCCGGGTGGC TAGCGGAGTC GACCTGGCCC AGACAGTCAT CCTGGAACTG GATAAAACAG ACCGCTGCAA AGAGACGAGA CGGCCCACCG ATCGCCTCAG CTGGACCGGG TCTGTCAGTA GGACCTTGAC CTATTTTGTC    Hypr E protein ---------------------    E  H  L   P  T  A TTGAGCATCT GCCTACCGCT AACTCGTAGA CGGATGGCGA                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  W  Q  V  H   R  D  W   F  N  D   L  A  L  P   W  K  H   E  G  A   R  N  W  N   N  A  E 1601 TGGCAGGTGC ACAGGGATTG GTTTAACGAC CTTGCCCTGC CATGGAAACA TGAAGGAGCG AGAAACTGGA ATAATGCAGA ACCGTCCACG TGTCCCTAAC CAAATTGCTG GAACGGGACG GTACCTTTGT ACTTCCTCGC TCTTTGACCT TATTACGTCT    Hypr E protein ---------------------   R  L  V   E  F  G  A• GCGACTCGTA GAATTCGGTG CGCTGAGCAT CTTAAGCCAC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  P  H  A   V  K  M   D  V  Y  N   L  G  D   Q  T  G   V  L  L  K   A  L  A   G  V  P 1701 CCCCTCATGC CGTGAAGATG GACGTCTACA ATCTGGGTGA TCAGACCGGC GTTCTCCTTA AAGCTCTCGC TGGCGTACCA GGGGAGTACG GCACTTCTAC CTGCAGATGT TAGACCCACT AGTCTGGCCG CAAGAGGAAT TTCGAGAGCG ACCGCATGGT    Hypr E protein ---------------------  V  A  H  I   E  G  T• GTTGCCCACA TCGAAGGAAC CAACGGGTGT AGCTTCCTTG                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • K  Y  H   L  K  S  G   H  V  T   C  E  V   G  L  E  K   L  K  M   K  G  L   T  Y  T  M 1801 GAAGTACCAC CTGAAGTCAG GCCATGTAAC TTGCGAGGTG GGCCTGGAGA AGTTGAAAAT GAAAGGTCTT ACGTACACAA CTTCATGGTG GACTTCAGTC CGGTACATTG AACGCTCCAC CCGGACCTCT TCAACTTTTA CTTTCCAGAA TGCATGTGTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------    C  D  K   T  K  F TGTGTGACAA GACCAAGTTC ACACACTGTT CTGGTTCAAG                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  T  W  K  R   A  P  T   D  S  G   H  D  T  V   V  M  E   V  T  F   S  G  T  K   P  C  R 1901 ACATGGAAGA GGGCCCCCAC AGATAGCGGC CACGATACTG TGGTGATGGA GGTGACCTTT TCTGGAACAA AACCCTGCAG TGTACCTTCT CCCGGGGGTG TCTATCGCCG GTGCTATGAC ACCACTACCT CCACTGGAAA AGACCTTGTT TTGGGACGTC    Hypr E protein ---------------------   I  P  V   R  A  V  A• AATACCCGTG CGGGCTGTAG TTATGGGCAC GCCCGACATC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  H  G  S   P  D  V   N  V  A  M   L  I  T   P  N  P   T  I  E  N   N  G  G   G  F  I 2001 CTCACGGATC TCCCGATGTC AATGTTGCTA TGCTGATTAC ACCTAACCCT ACCATCGAGA ATAACGGTGG TGGTTTTATT GAGTGCCTAG AGGGCTACAG TTACAACGAT ACGACTAATG TGGATTGGGA TGGTAGCTCT TATTGCCACC ACCAAAATAA    Hypr E protein ---------------------  E  M  Q  L   P  P  G• GAGATGCAGC TTCCGCCAGG CTCTACGTCG AAGGCGGTCC                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  N  I   I  Y  V  G   E  L  S   Y  Q  W   F  Q  K  G   S  S  I   G  R  V   F  Q  K  T 2101 CGATAACATC ATCTACGTGG GCGAACTCTC TTACCAGTGG TTTCAGAAAG GGAGTTCAAT TGGGCGGGTC TTCCAAAAAA GCTATTGTAG TAGATGCACC CGCTTGAGAG AATGGTCACC AAAGTCTTTC CCTCAAGTTA ACCCGCCCAG AAGGTTTTTT    Hypr E protein ---------------------    K  K  G   I  E  R CGAAGAAGGG AATCGAACGA GCTTCTTCCC TTAGCTTGCT                                            Hypr E protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  L  T  V  I   G  E  H   A  W  D   F  G  S  A   G  G  F   L  S  S   I  G  K  A   L  H  T 2201 TTGACGGTTA TCGGCGAGCA CGCATGGGAT TTTGGTTCCG CAGGGGGATT CCTGTCTTCT ATTGGTAAGG CACTGCATAC AACTGCCAAT AGCCGCTCGT GCGTACCCTA AAACCAAGGC GTCCCCCTAA GGACAGAAGA TAACCATTCC GTGACGTATG    Hypr E protein ---------------------   V  L  G   G  A  F  N• CGTGCTGGGG GGCGCATTCA GCACGACCCC CCGCGTAAGT                                            Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  S  I  F   G  G  V   G  F  L  P   K  L  L   L  G  V   A  L  A  W   L  G  L   N  M  R 2301 ATTCTATTTT CGGGGGCGTG GGGTTCCTGC CTAAACTCCT GCTGGGAGTA GCCCTGGCCT GGTTGGGACT GAATATGCGG TAAGATAAAA GCCCCCGCAC CCCAAGGACG GATTTGAGGA CGACCCTCAT CGGGACCGGA CCAACCCTGA CTTATACGCC    Hypr E protein ---------------------  N  P  T  M   S  M  S• AATCCGACGA TGTCCATGTC TTAGGCTGCT ACAGGTACAG                    Hypr E protein ---------------------------------------------------------                                                                      NS1 gene                                                                      of YF17D                                                          ------------------------------- • F  L  L   A  G  V  L   V  L  A   M  T  L   G  V  G  A   D  Q  G   C  A  I   N  F  G  K 2401 ATTCCTCTTG GCCGGCGTGC TTGTACTGGC CATGACACTG GGCGTTGGCG CCGATCAAGG ATGCGCCATC AACTTTGGCA TAAGGAGAAC CGGCCGCACG AACATGACCG GTACTGTGAC CCGCAACCGC GGCTAGTTCC TACGCGGTAG TTGAAACCGT NS1 gene of YF17D ------------    R  E  L AGAGAGAGCT C TCTCTCTCGA G

SEQUENCE APPENDIX 3 PIV-WN/TBEV Hypr with TBEV signal (p39)                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA                  deleted C                  ----       5′ UTR -----------------                  M  S • TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                             WNV deleted C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  Y   L  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCTA TTTGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGAT AAACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA WNV deleted C protein ---------------------  G  L  K  R   S  S  K • GGACTTAAGC GGAGCTCCAA CCTGAATTCG CCTCGAGGTT                                       TBEV signal               ------------------------------------------------------------------   deleted C                                                                     prM Hypr --------------                                                                  -------- • Q  K  K   R  G  G  T   D  W  M   S  W  L   L  V  I  G   M  L  G   M  T  I   A  A  T  V 201 ACAAAAGAAA CGGGGGGGAA CAGACTGGAT GAGCTGGCTG CTCGTAATCG GCATGCTGGG CATGACAATC GCAGCTACGG TGTTTTCTTT GCCCCCCCTT GTCTGACCTA CTCGACCGAC GAGCATTAGC CGTACGACCC GTACTGTTAG CGTCGATGCC       prM Hypr ---------------------    R  K  E   R  D  G TTCGCAAGGA AAGAGACGGC AAGCGTTCCT TTCTCTGCCG                                               prM Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  S  T  V  I   R  A  E   G  K  D   A  A  T  Q   V  R  V   E  N  G   T  C  V  I   L  A  T 301 AGTACGGTCA TACGCGCGGA AGGTAAGGAT GCCGCTACCC AAGTGAGAGT GGAAAATGGT ACCTGCGTCA TTCTGGCCAC TCATGCCAGT ATGCGCGCCT TCCATTCCTA CGGCGATGGG TTCACTCTCA CCTTTTACCA TGGACGCAGT AAGACCGGTG       prM Hypr ---------------------   D  M  G   S  W  C  D • CGACATGGGC TCTTGGTGTG GCTGTACCCG AGAACCACAC                                               prM Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  D  S  L   S  Y  E   C  V  T  I   D  Q  G   E  E  P   V  D  V  D   C  F  C   R  N  V 401 ATGATAGCCT TTCTTATGAG TGCGTAACCA TAGATCAAGG TGAGGAACCT GTTGACGTTG ATTGCTTCTG CCGAAACGTG TACTATCGGA AAGAATACTC ACGCATTGGT ATCTAGTTCC ACTCCTTGGA CAACTGCAAC TAACGAAGAC GGCTTTGCAC       prM Hypr ---------------------  D  G  V  Y   L  E  Y • GATGGGGTGT ATCTCGAATA CTACCCCACA TAGAGCTTAT                                               prM Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  R  C   G  K  Q  E   G  S  R   T  R  R   S  V  L  I   P  S  H   A  Q  G   E  L  T  G 501 TGGACGGTGT GGTAAACAAG AAGGAAGCAG AACCAGACGC TCAGTGCTTA TACCCTCCCA CGCTCAAGGA GAGCTGACCG ACCTGCCACA CCATTTGTTC TTCCTTCGTC TTGGTCTGCG AGTCACGAAT ATGGGAGGGT GCGAGTTCCT CTCGACTGGC       prM Hypr ---------------------    R  G  H   K  W  L GACGGGGACA TAAATGGTTG CTGCCCCTGT ATTTACCAAC                                               prM Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  G  D  S   L  R  T   H  L  T   R  V  E  G   W  V  W   K  N  R   L  L  A  L   A  M  V 601 GAGGGCGACT CACTCCGAAC ACATTTGACC CGCGTCGAGG GCTGGGTCTG GAAAAATCGG CTGTTGGCCC TCGCTATGGT CTCCCGCTGA GTGAGGCTTG TGTAAACTGG GCGCAGCTCC CGACCCAGAC CTTTTTAGCC GACAACCGGG AGCGATACCA       prM Hypr ---------------------   T  V  V   W  L  T  L • GACAGTCGTT TGGCTCACGC CTGTCAGCAA ACCGAGTGCG                                                                             E Hypr                                                                        -----------------                             prM Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  S  V   V  T  R   V  A  V  L   V  V  L   L  C  L   A  P  V  Y   A  S  R   C  T  H 701 TGGAGTCTGT GGTTACTCGC GTGGCAGTGC TGGTGGTGCT CCTCTGTCTT GCCCCTGTCT ACGCGTCCAG GTGTACTCAT ACCTCAGACA CCAATGAGCG CACCGTCACG ACCACCACGA GGAGACAGAA CGGGGACAGA TGCGCAGGTC CACATGAGTA       E Hypr ---------------------  L  E  N  R   D  F  V • TTGGAAAACA GAGATTTTGT AACCTTTTGT CTCTAAAACA                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  G  T   Q  G  T  T   R  V  T   L  V  L   E  L  G  G   C  V  T   I  T  A   E  G  K  P 801 CACCGGCACC CAGGGGACGA CTCGGGTAAC CCTGGTGCTT GAACTGGGTG GTTGCGTTAC TATTACCGCT GAGGGCAAAC GTGGCCGTGG GTCCCCTGCT GAGCCCATTG GGACCACGAA CTTGACCCAC CAACGCAATG ATAATGGCGA CTCCCGTTTG       E Hypr ---------------------    S  M  D   V  W  L CCTCTATGGA TGTGTGGCTG GGAGATACCT ACACACCGAC                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  A  I  Y   Q  E  N   P  A  Q   T  R  E  Y   C  L  H   A  K  L   S  D  T  K   V  A  A 901 GATGCAATCT ATCAGGAGAA TCCCGCACAA ACCAGGGAAT ATTGCCTTCA CGCAAAGCTG TCCGATACAA AGGTCGCGGC CTACGTTAGA TAGTCCTCTT AGGGCGTGTT TGGTCCCTTA TAACGGAAGT GCGTTTCGAC AGGCTATGTT TCCAGCGCCG       E Hypr ---------------------   R  C  P   T  M  G  P • TAGGTGCCCA ACAATGGGAC ATCCACGGGT TGTTACCCTG                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  T  L   A  E  E   H  Q  G  G   T  V  C   K  R  D   Q  S  D  R   G  W  G   N  H  C 1001 CGGCCACCCT GGCGGAGGAA CATCAGGGAG GTACAGTGTG CAAACGGGAC CAGAGTGATA GAGGCTGGGG TAATCACTGC GCCGGTGGGA CCGCCTCCTT GTAGTCCCTC CATGTCACAC GTTTGCCCTG GTCTCACTAT CTCCGACCCC ATTAGTGACG       E Hypr ---------------------  G  L  F  G   K  G  S • GGCCTGTTCG GCAAAGGAAG CCGGACAAGC CGTTTCCTTC                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • I  V  A   C  V  K  A   A  C  E   A  K  K   K  A  T  G   H  V  Y   D  A  N   K  I  V  Y 1101 TATTGTCGCT TGCGTCAAGG CAGCCTGTGA GGCCAAAAAG AAGGCTACTG GGCACGTCTA TGACGCCAAC AAGATCGTTT ATAACAGCGA ACGCAGTTCC GTCGGACACT CCGGTTTTTC TTCCGATGAC CCGTGCAGAT ACTGCGGTTG TTCTAGCAAA       E Hypr ---------------------    T  V  K   V  E  P ATACAGTGAA AGTGGAACCA TATGTCACTT TCACCTTGGT                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  H  T  G  D   Y  V  A   A  N  E   T  H  S  G   R  K  T   A  S  F   T  V  S  S   E  K  T 1201 CACACAGGGG ATTACGTGGC GGCCAACGAG ACTCATTCCG GTCGCAAAAC GGCCAGCTTC ACCGTGTCAT CCGAAAAGAC GTGTGTCCCC TAATGCACCG CCGGTTGCTC TGAGTAAGGC CAGCGTTTTG CCGGTCGAAG TGGCACAGTA GGCTTTTCTG       E Hypr ---------------------   I  L  T   M  G  E  Y • CATCCTCACT ATGGGGGAGT GTAGGAGTGA TACCCCCTCA                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  G  D  V   S  L  L   C  R  V  A   S  G  V   D  L  A   Q  T  V  I   L  E  L   D  K  T 1301 ATGGCGACGT TTCTCTGCTC TGCCGGGTGG CTAGCGGAGT CGACCTGGCC CAGACAGTCA TCCTGGAACT GGATAAAACA TACCGCTGCA AAGAGACGAG ACGGCCCACC GATCGCCTCA GCTGGACCGG GTCTGTCAGT AGGACCTTGA CCTATTTTGT       E Hypr ---------------------  V  E  H  L   P  T  A • GTTGAGCATC TGCCTACCGC CAACTCGTAG ACGGATGGCG                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • W  Q  V   H  R  D  W   F  N  D   L  A  L   P  W  K  H   E  G  A   R  N  W   N  N  A  E 1401 TTGGCAGGTG CACAGGGATT GGTTTAACGA CCTTGCCCTG CCATGGAAAC ATGAAGGAGC GAGAAACTGG AATAATGCAG AACCGTCCAC GTGTCCCTAA CCAAATTGCT GGAACGGGAC GGTACCTTTG TACTTCCTCG CTCTTTGACC TTATTACGTC       E Hypr ---------------------    R  L  V   E  F  G AGCGACTCGT AGAATTCGGT TCGCTGAGCA TCTTAAGCCA                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  A  P  H  A   V  K  M   D  V  Y   N  L  G  D   Q  T  G   V  L  L   K  A  L  A   G  V  P 1501 GCCCCTCATG CCGTGAAGAT GGACGTCTAC AATCTGGGTG ATCAGACCGG CGTTCTCCTT AAAGCTCTCG CTGGCGTACC CGGGGAGTAC GGCACTTCTA CCTGCAGATG TTAGACCCAC TAGTCTGGCC GCAAGAGGAA TTTCGAGAGC GACCGCATGG       E Hypr ---------------------   V  A  H   I  E  G  T • AGTTGCCCAC ATCGAAGGAA TCAACGGGTG TAGCTTCCTT                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  Y  H   L  K  S   G  H  V  T   C  E  V   G  L  E   K  L  K  M   K  G  L   T  Y  T 1601 CGAAGTACCA CCTGAAGTCA GGCCATGTAA CTTGCGAGGT GGGCCTGGAG AAGTTGAAAA TGAAAGGTCT TACGTACACA GCTTCATGGT GGACTTCAGT CCGGTACATT GAACGCTCCA CCCGGACCTC TTCAACTTTT ACTTTCCAGA ATGCATGTGT       E Hypr ---------------------  M  C  D  K   T  K  F • ATGTGTGACA AGACCAAGTT TACACACTGT TCTGGTTCAA                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  W  K   R  A  P  T   D  S  G   H  D  T   V  V  M  E   V  T  F   S  G  T   K  P  C  R 1701 CACATGGAAG AGGGCCCCCA CAGATAGCGG CCACGATACT GTGGTGATGG AGGTGACCTT TTCTGGAACA AAACCCTGCA GTGTACCTTC TCCCGGGGGT GTCTATCGCC GGTGCTATGA CACCACTACC TCCACTGGAA AAGACCTTGT TTTGGGACGT       E Hypr ---------------------    I  P  V   R  A  V GAATACCCGT GCGGGCTGTA GAATACCCGT GCGGGCTGTA                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  A  H  G  S   P  D  V   N  V  A   M  L  I  T   P  N  P   T  I  E   N  N  G  G   G  F  I 1801 GCTCACGGAT CTCCCGATGT CAATGTTGCT ATGCTGATTA CACCTAACCC TACCATCGAG AATAACGGTG GTGGTTTTAT CGAGTGCCTA GAGGGCTACA GTTACAACGA TACGACTAAT GTGGATTGGG ATGGTAGCTC TTATTGCCAC CACCAAAATA       E Hypr ---------------------   E  M  Q   L  P  P  G • TGAGATGCAG CTTCCGCCAG ACTCTACGTC GAAGGCGGTC                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  D  N  I   I  Y  V   G  E  L  S   Y  Q  W   F  Q  K   G  S  S  I   G  R  V   F  Q  K 1901 GCGATAACAT CATCTACGTG GGCGAACTCT CTTACCAGTG GTTTCAGAAA GGGAGTTCAA TTGGGCGGGT CTTCCAAAAA CGCTATTGTA GTAGATGCAC CCGCTTGAGA GAATGGTCAC CAAAGTCTTT CCCTCAAGTT AACCCGCCCA GAAGGTTTTT       E Hypr ---------------------  T  K  K  G   I  E  R • ACGAAGAAGG GAATCGAACG TGCTTCTTCC CTTAGCTTGC                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  T  V   I  G  E  H   A  W  D   F  G  S   A  G  G  F   L  S  S   I  G  K   A  L  H  T 2001 ATTGACGGTT ATCGGCGAGC ACGCATGGGA TTTTGGTTCC GCAGGGGGAT TCCTGTCTTC TATTGGTAAG GCACTGCATA TAACTGCCAA TAGCCGCTCG TGCGTACCCT AAAACCAAGG CGTCCCCCTA AGGACAGAAG ATAACCATTC CGTGACGTAT       E Hypr ---------------------    V  L  G   G  A  F CCGTGCTGGG GGGCGCATTC GGCACGACCC CCCGCGTAAG                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  N  S  I  F   G  G  V   G  F  L   P  K  L  L   L  G  V   A  L  A   W  L  G  L   N  M  R 2101 AATTCTATTT TCGGGGGCGT GGGGTTCCTG CCTAAACTCC TGCTGGGAGT AGCCCTGGCC TGGTTGGGAC TGAATATGCG TTAAGATAAA AGCCCCCGCA CCCCAAGGAC GGATTTGAGG ACGACCCTCA TCGGGACCGG ACCAACCCTG ACTTATACGC       E Hypr ---------------------   N  P  T   M  S  M  S • GAATCCGACG ATGTCCATGT CTTAGGCTGC TACAGGTACA                        E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------                                                                    WNV NS1 protein                                                           ------------------------------ •  F  L  L   A  G  V   L  V  L  A   M  T  L   G  V  G   A  D  T  G   C  A  I   D  I  S 2201 CATTCCTCTT GGCCGGCGTG CTTGTACTGG CCATGACACT GGGCGTTGGC GCCGACACTG GGTGTGCCAT AGACATCAGC GTAAGGAGAA CCGGCCGCAC GAACATGACC GGTACTGTGA CCCGCAACCG CGGCTGTGAC CCACACGGTA TCTGTAGTCG WNV NS1 protein ------  R  Q CGGCAA GCCGTT PIV-WN/TBEV Hypr with WNV signal (p40)                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA               deleted C                 ----       5′ UTR -----------------                   M  S • TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                             WNV deleted C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  Y   L  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCTA TTTGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGAT AAACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA       WNV deleted C ---------------------  G  L  K  R   S  S  K • GGACTTAAGC GGAGCTCCAA CCTGAATTCG CCTCGAGGTT                                     WNV signal               ----------------------------------------------------------- WNV deleted C                                                               prM Hypr --------------                                                           --------------- • Q  K  K   R  G  G  K   T  G  I   A  V  M   I  G  M  L   A  C  V   G  A  A   T  V  R  K 201 GCAAAAGAAA CGCGGGGGAA AGACAGGCAT AGCTGTGATG ATAGGCATGC TGGCTTGTGT CGGAGCAGCT ACCGTGCGAA CGTTTTCTTT GCGCCCCCTT TCTGTCCGTA TCGACACTAC TATCCGTACG ACCGAACACA GCCTCGTCGA TGGCACGCTT       prM Hypr ---------------------    E  R  D   G  S  T AAGAACGCGA CGGAAGCACC TTCTTGCGCT GCCTTCGTGG                                               prM Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  V  I  R  A   E  G  K   D  A  A   T  Q  V  R   V  E  N   G  T  C   V  I  L  A   T  D  M 301 GTGATAAGGG CTGAGGGTAA GGATGCGGCT ACGCAGGTGA GAGTAGAGAA TGGCACTTGC GTAATACTCG CGACTGATAT CACTATTCCC GACTCCCATT CCTACGCCGA TGCGTCCACT CTCATCTCTT ACCGTGAACG CATTATGAGC GCTGACTATA       prM Hypr ---------------------   G  S  W   C  D  D  S • GGGATCCTGG TGTGACGATA CCCTAGGACC ACACTGCTAT                                               prM Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  L  S  Y   E  C  V   T  I  D  Q   G  E  E   P  V  D   V  D  C  F   C  R  N   V  D  G 401 GCCTCAGTTA TGAATGCGTA ACAATAGACC AGGGCGAAGA ACCTGTGGAC GTTGACTGTT TCTGTAGAAA TGTGGATGGC CGGAGTCAAT ACTTACGCAT TGTTATCTGG TCCCGCTTCT TGGACACCTG CAACTGACAA AGACATCTTT ACACCTACCG       prM Hypr ---------------------  V  Y  L  E   Y  G  R • GTTTATCTGG AGTACGGCCG CAAATAGACC TCATGCCGGC                                               prM Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • C  G  K   Q  E  G  S   R  T  R   R  S  V   L  I  P  S   H  A  Q   G  E  L   T  G  R  G 501 CTGTGGAAAA CAGGAGGGCT CACGAACTCG AAGATCTGTG CTGATTCCAA GTCACGCGCA AGGAGAGTTG ACCGGTAGAG GACACCTTTT GTCCTCCCGA GTGCTTGAGC TTCTAGACAC GACTAAGGTT CAGTGCGCGT TCCTCTCAAC TGGCCATCTC       prM Hypr ---------------------    H  K  W   L  E  G GCCACAAGTG GCTTGAAGGG CGGTGTTCAC CGAACTTCCC                                               prM Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  S  L  R   T  H  L   T  R  V   E  G  W  V   W  K  N   R  L  L   A  L  A  M   V  T  V 601 GACTCATTGA GGACCCACCT GACTAGGGTG GAGGGTTGGG TTTGGAAGAA TCGGTTGCTC GCGCTCGCTA TGGTCACCGT CTGAGTAACT CCTGGGTGGA CTGATCCCAC CTCCCAACCC AAACCTTCTT AGCCAACGAG CGCGAGCGAT ACCAGTGGCA       prM Hypr ---------------------   V  W  L   T  L  E  S • CGTGTGGCTG ACACTGGAGA GCACACCGAC TGTGACCTCT                                                                            E Hypr                                                                 ------------------------                          prM Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  V  T   R  V  A   V  L  V  V   L  L  C   L  A  P   V  Y  A  S   R  C  T   H  L  E 701 GTGTCGTGAC TCGGGTTGCT GTGTTGGTTG TCCTCCTCTG TTTGGCCCCA GTGTACGCGT CCAGGTGTAC TCATTTGGAA CACAGCACTG AGCCCAACGA CACAACCAAC AGGAGGAGAC AAACCGGGGT CACATGCGCA GGTCCACATG AGTAAACCTT       E Hypr ---------------------  N  R  D  F   V  T  G • AACAGAGATT TTGTCACCGG TTGTCTCTAA AACAGTGGCC                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  Q  G   T  T  R  V   T  L  V   L  E  L   G  G  C  V   T  I  T   A  E  G   K  P  S  M 801 CACCCAGGGG ACGACTCGGG TAACCCTGGT GCTTGAACTG GGTGGTTGCG TTACTATTAC CGCTGAGGGC AAACCCTCTA GTGGGTCCCC TGCTGAGCCC ATTGGGACCA CGAACTTGAC CCACCAACGC AATGATAATG GCGACTCCCG TTTGGGAGAT       E Hypr ---------------------    D  V  W   L  D  A TGGATGTGTG GCTGGATGCA ACCTACACAC CGACCTACGT                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  Y  Q  E   N  P  A   Q  T  R   E  Y  C  L   H  A  K   L  S  D   T  K  V  A   A  R  C 901 ATCTATCAGG AGAATCCCGC ACAAACCAGG GAATATTGCC TTCACGCAAA GCTGTCCGAT ACAAAGGTCG CGGCTAGGTG TAGATAGTCC TCTTAGGGCG TGTTTGGTCC CTTATAACGG AAGTGCGTTT CGACAGGCTA TGTTTCCAGC GCCGATCCAC       E Hypr ---------------------   P  T  M   G  P  A  T • CCCAACAATG GGACCGGCCA GGGTTGTTAC CCTGGCCGGT                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  L  A  E   E  H  Q   G  G  T  V   C  K  R   D  Q  S   D  R  G  W   G  N  H   C  G  L 1001 CCCTGGCGGA GGAACATCAG GGAGGTACAG TGTGCAAACG GGACCAGAGT GATAGAGGCT GGGGTAATCA CTGCGGCCTG GGGACCGCCT CCTTGTAGTC CCTCCATGTC ACACGTTTGC CCTGGTCTCA CTATCTCCGA CCCCATTAGT GACGCCGGAC       E Hypr ---------------------  F  G  K  G   S  I  V • TTCGGCAAAG GAAGTATTGT AAGCCGTTTC CTTCATAACA                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • A  C  V   K  A  A  C   E  A  K   K  K  A   T  G  H  V   Y  D  A   N  K  I   V  Y  T  V 1101 CGCTTGCGTC AAGGCAGCCT GTGAGGCCAA AAAGAAGGCT ACTGGGCACG TCTATGACGC CAACAAGATC GTTTATACAG GCGAACGCAG TTCCGTCGGA CACTCCGGTT TTTCTTCCGA TGACCCGTGC AGATACTGCG GTTGTTCTAG CAAATATGTC       E Hypr ---------------------    K  V  E   P  H  T TGAAAGTGGA ACCACACACA ACTTTCACCT TGGTGTGTGT                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  G  D  Y  V   A  A  N   E  T  H   S  G  R  K   T  A  S   F  T  V   S  S  E  K   T  I  L 1201 GGGGATTACG TGGCGGCCAA CGAGACTCAT TCCGGTCGCA AAACGGCCAG CTTCACCGTG TCATCCGAAA AGACCATCCT CCCCTAATGC ACCGCCGGTT GCTCTGAGTA AGGCCAGCGT TTTGCCGGTC GAAGTGGCAC AGTAGGCTTT TCTGGTAGGA       E Hypr ---------------------   T  M  G   E  Y  G  D • CACTATGGGG GAGTATGGCG GTGATACCCC CTCATACCGC                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  S  L   L  C  R   V  A  S  G   V  D  L   A  Q  T   V  I  L  E   L  D  K   T  V  E 1301 ACGTTTCTCT GCTCTGCCGG GTGGCTAGCG GAGTCGACCT GGCCCAGACA GTCATCCTGG AACTGGATAA AACAGTTGAG TGCAAAGAGA CGAGACGGCC CACCGATCGC CTCAGCTGGA CCGGGTCTGT CAGTAGGACC TTGACCTATT TTGTCAACTC       E Hypr ---------------------  H  L  P  T   A  W  Q • CATCTGCCTA CCGCTTGGCA GTAGACGGAT GGCGAACCGT                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • V  H  R   D  W  F  N   D  L  A   L  P  W   K  H  E  G   A  R  N   W  N  N   A  E  R  L 1401 GGTGCACAGG GATTGGTTTA ACGACCTTGC CCTGCCATGG AAACATGAAG GAGCGAGAAA CTGGAATAAT GCAGAGCGAC CCACGTGTCC CTAACCAAAT TGCTGGAACG GGACGGTACC TTTGTACTTC CTCGCTCTTT GACCTTATTA CGTCTCGCTG       E Hypr ---------------------    V  E  F   G  A  P TCGTAGAATT CGGTGCCCCT AGCATCTTAA GCCACGGGGA                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  H  A  V  K   M  D  V   Y  N  L   G  D  Q  T   G  V  L   L  K  A   L  A  G  V   P  V  A 1501 CATGCCGTGA AGATGGACGT CTACAATCTG GGTGATCAGA CCGGCGTTCT CCTTAAAGCT CTCGCTGGCG TACCAGTTGC GTACGGCACT TCTACCTGCA GATGTTAGAC CCACTAGTCT GGCCGCAAGA GGAATTTCGA GAGCGACCGC ATGGTCAACG       E Hypr ---------------------   H  I  E   G  T  K  Y • CCACATCGAA GGAACGAAGT GGTGTAGCTT CCTTGCTTCA                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  H  L  K   S  G  H   V  T  C  E   V  G  L   E  K  L   K  M  K  G   L  T  Y   T  M  C 1601 ACCACCTGAA GTCAGGCCAT GTAACTTGCG AGGTGGGCCT GGAGAAGTTG AAAATGAAAG GTCTTACGTA CACAATGTGT TGGTGGACTT CAGTCCGGTA CATTGAACGC TCCACCCGGA CCTCTTCAAC TTTTACTTTC CAGAATGCAT GTGTTACACA       E Hypr ---------------------  D  K  T  K   F  T  W • GACAAGACCA AGTTCACATG CTGTTCTGGT TCAAGTGTAC                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • K  R  A   P  T  D  S   G  H  D   T  V  V   M  E  V  T   F  S  G   T  K  P   C  R  I  P 1701 GAAGAGGGCC CCCACAGATA GCGGCCACGA TACTGTGGTG ATGGAGGTGA CCTTTTCTGG AACAAAACCC TGCAGAATAC CTTCTCCCGG GGGTGTCTAT CGCCGGTGCT ATGACACCAC TACCTCCACT GGAAAAGACC TTGTTTTGGG ACGTCTTATG       E Hypr ---------------------    V  R  A   V  A  H CCGTGCGGGC TGTAGCTCAC GGCACGCCCG ACATCGAGTG                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  G  S  P  D   V  N  V   A  M  L   I  T  P  N   P  T  I   E  N  N   G  G  G  F   I  E  M 1801 GGATCTCCCG ATGTCAATGT TGCTATGCTG ATTACACCTA ACCCTACCAT CGAGAATAAC GGTGGTGGTT TTATTGAGAT CCTAGAGGGC TACAGTTACA ACGATACGAC TAATGTGGAT TGGGATGGTA GCTCTTATTG CCACCACCAA AATAACTCTA       E Hypr ---------------------   Q  L  P   P  G  D  N • GCAGCTTCCG CCAGGCGATA CGTCGAAGGC GGTCCGCTAT                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  I  I  Y   V  G  E   L  S  Y  Q   W  F  Q   K  G  S   S  I  G  R   V  F  Q   K  T  K 1901 ACATCATCTA CGTGGGCGAA CTCTCTTACC AGTGGTTTCA GAAAGGGAGT TCAATTGGGC GGGTCTTCCA AAAAACGAAG TGTAGTAGAT GCACCCGCTT GAGAGAATGG TCACCAAAGT CTTTCCCTCA AGTTAACCCG CCCAGAAGGT TTTTTGCTTC       E Hypr ---------------------  K  G  I  E   R  L  T • AAGGGAATCG AACGATTGAC TTCCCTTAGC TTGCTAACTG                                                E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • V  I  G   E  H  A  W   D  F  G   S  A  G   G  F  L  S   S  I  G   K  A  L   H  T  V  L 2001 CGTTATCGGC GAGCACGCAT GGGATTTTGG TTCCGCAGGG GGATTCCTGT CTTCTATTGG TAAGGCACTG CATACCGTGC CCAATAGCCG CTCGTGCGTA CCCTAAAACC AAGGCGTCCC CCTAAGGACA GAAGATAACC ATTCCGTGAC GTATGGCACG       E Hypr ---------------------    G  G  A   F  N  S TGGGGGGCGC ATTCAATTCT ACCCCCCGCG TAAGTTAAGA                                                E Hypr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  F  G  G   V  G  F   L  P  K   L  L  L  G   V  A  L   A  W  L   G  L  N  M   R  N  P 2101 ATTTTCGGGG GCGTGGGGTT CCTGCCTAAA CTCCTGCTGG GAGTAGCCCT GGCCTGGTTG GGACTGAATA TGCGGAATCC TAAAAGCCCC CGCACCCCAA GGACGGATTT GAGGACGACC CTCATCGGGA CCGGACCAAC CCTGACTTAT ACGCCTTAGG       E Hypr ---------------------   T  M  S   M  S  F  L • GACGATGTCC ATGTCATTCC CTGCTACAGG TACAGTAAGG                     E Hypr ---------------------------------------------------                                                                  WNV NS1 protein                                                    ------------------------------------- •  L  A  G   V  L  V   L  A  M  T   L  G  V   G  A  D   T  G  C  A   I  D  I   S  R  Q 2201 TCTTGGCCGG CGTGCTTGTA CTGGCCATGA CACTGGGCGT TGGCGCCGAC ACTGGGTGTG CCATAGACAT CAGCCGGCAA AGAACCGGCC GCACGAACAT GACCGGTACT GTGACCCGCA ACCGCGGCTG TGACCCACAC GGTATCTGTA GTCGGCCGTT

SEQUENCE APPENDIX 4. WN PIV constructs expressing rabies virus G protein. WN (ΔCprME)-Rabies PIV sequence (partial)                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA    N-terminus of C                  ----       5′ UTR -----------------                  M  S •                  ---- TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                           N-terminus of C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  Y   L  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCTA TTTGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGAT AAACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA    N-terminus of C ---------------------  G  L  K  Q   K  K  R • --------------------- GGACTTAAGC AAAAGAAGCG CCTGAATTCG TTTTCTTCGC N-terminus of C                                   Rabies-G signal --                             ---------------------------------------------------------        partial C signal   ---------------------------- • G  G  K   T  G  I  A   V  I  V   P  Q  A   L  L  F  V   P  L  L   V  F  P   L  C  F  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 201 AGGGGGCAAG ACTGGTATAG CTGTGATCGT TCCTCAGGCT CTTTTGTTTG TACCCTTGCT GGTATTTCCC CTTTGCTTTG TCCCCCGTTC TGACCATATC GACACTAGCA AGGAGTCCGA GAAAACAAAC ATGGGAACGA CCATAAAGGG GAAACGAAAC    Rabies-G protein   -------------------    K  F  P   I  Y  T --------------------- GTAAATTTCC TATCTATACC CATTTAAAGG ATAGATATGG                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  P  D  K   L  G  P   W  S  P   I  D  I  H   H  L  S   C  P  N   N  L  V  V   E  D  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 301 ATCCCTGATA AGCTCGGGCC TTGGAGTCCC ATTGATATTC ACCATTTGAG CTGCCCAAAC AACCTCGTCG TTGAGGATGA TAGGGACTAT TCGAGCCCGG AACCTCAGGG TAACTATAAG TGGTAAACTC GACGGGTTTG TTGGAGCAGC AACTCCTACT    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   G  C  T   N  L  S  G • --------------------- AGGGTGCACT AATCTTTCTG TCCCACGTGA TTAGAAAGAC                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  F  S  Y  M   E  L  K   V  G  Y  I   S  A  I   K  M  N   G  F  T  C   T  G  V   V  T ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 401 GATTTTCCTA CATGGAGTTG AAAGTGGGCT ATATTTCAGC CATTAAGATG AACGGCTTTA CTTGTACAGG AGTCGTGACC CTAAAAGGAT GTACCTCAAC TTTCACCCGA TATAAAGTCG GTAATTCTAC TTGCCGAAAT GAACATGTCC TCAGCACTGG    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  E   A  E  T  Y   T  N • --------------------- GAAGCCGAGA CATATACAAA CTTCGGCTCT GTATATGTTT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • F  V  G   Y  V  T  T   T  F  K   R  K  H   F  R  P  T   P  D  A   C  R  A   A  Y  N  W ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 501 TTTCGTGGGA TACGTCACCA CCACCTTCAA GAGAAAACAC TTCCGCCCAA CGCCTGACGC TTGTCGGGCC GCTTACAACT AAAGCACCCT ATGCAGTGGT GGTGGAAGTT CTCTTTTGTG AAGGCGGGTT GCGGACTGCG AACAGCCCGG CGAATGTTGA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    K  M  A   G  D  P --------------------- GGAAGATGGC AGGAGATCCT CCTTCTACCG TCCTCTAGGA                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  R  Y  E  E   S  L  H   N  P  Y   P  D  Y  H   W  L  R   T  V  K   T  T  K  E   S  L  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 601 CGATATGAAG AATCTCTGCA CAACCCGTAT CCTGATTACC ATTGGCTGCG GACAGTCAAG ACTACCAAGG AGAGTCTGGT GCTATACTTC TTAGAGACGT GTTGGGCATA GGACTAATGG TAACCGACGC CTGTCAGTTC TGATGGTTCC TCTCAGACCA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   I  I  S   P  S  V  A • --------------------- CATTATATCA CCAAGCGTGG GTAATATAGT GGTTCGCACC                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  D  L  D   P  Y  D   R  S  L  H   S  R  V   F  P  G   G  N  C  S   G  V  A   V  S  S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 701 CCGATCTTGA TCCTTATGAT AGATCCCTGC ACAGTAGGGT TTTTCCTGGC GGGAATTGTA GCGGTGTTGC AGTATCAAGT GGCTAGAACT AGGAATACTA TCTAGGGACG TGTCATCCCA AAAAGGACCG CCCTTAACAT CGCCACAACG TCATAGTTCA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  T  Y  C  S   T  N  H • --------------------- ACCTACTGCT CCACTAACCA TGGATGACGA GGTGATTGGT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  Y  T   I  W  M  P   E  N  P   R  L  G   M  S  C  D   I  F  T   N  S  R   G  K  R  A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 801 CGACTACACT ATATGGATGC CTGAGAACCC TCGACTCGGT ATGAGTTGCG ACATTTTTAC GAACTCACGG GGCAAGCGGG GCTGATGTGA TATACCTACG GACTCTTGGG AGCTGAGCCA TACTCAACGC TGTAAAAATG CTTGAGTGCC CCGTTCGCCC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    S  K  G   S  E  T --------------------- CATCTAAGGG GTCTGAAACA GTAGATTCCC CAGACTTTGT                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  C  G  F  V   D  E  R   G  L  Y   K  S  L  K   G  A  C   K  L  K   L  C  G  V   L  G  L ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 901 TGCGGGTTTG TTGATGAGCG GGGGTTGTAT AAATCTCTTA AAGGCGCCTG TAAGCTGAAA CTCTGTGGCG TACTGGGGCT ACGCCCAAAC AACTACTCGC CCCCAACATA TTTAGAGAAT TTCCGCGGAC ATTCGACTTT GAGACACCGC ATGACCCCGA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   R  L  M   D  G  T  W • --------------------- GCGCCTGATG GACGGCACAT CGCGGACTAC CTGCCGTGTA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  A  M   Q  T  S   N  E  T  K   W  C  P   P  G  Q   L  V  N  L   H  D  F   R  S  D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1001 GGGTGGCTAT GCAGACAAGC AATGAAACAA AGTGGTGTCC CCCTGGTCAG CTGGTTAATC TGCACGACTT TAGGTCTGAC CCCACCGATA CGTCTGTTCG TTACTTTGTT TCACCACAGG GGGACCAGTC GACCAATTAG ACGTGCTGAA ATCCAGACTG    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  E  I  E  H   L  V  V • --------------------- GAAATCGAGC ACCTTGTGGT CTTTAGCTCG TGGAACACCA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  E  L   V  K  K  R   E  E  C   L  D  A   L  E  S  I   M  T  T   K  S  V   S  F  R  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1101 GGAGGAACTG GTGAAGAAAC GCGAAGAGTG CCTGGACGCA CTTGAGAGTA TTATGACCAC CAAATCCGTT TCCTTCAGAA CCTCCTTGAC CACTTCTTTG CGCTTCTCAC GGACCTGCGT GAACTCTCAT AATACTGGTG GTTTAGGCAA AGGAAGTCTT    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    L  S  H   L  R  K --------------------- GACTGAGCCA CCTGCGAAAG CTGACTCGGT GGACGCTTTC                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  L  V  P  G   F  G  K   A  Y  T   I  F  N  K   T  L  M   E  A  D   A  H  Y  K   S  V  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1201 CTGGTGCCAG GGTTCGGGAA GGCTTATACT ATTTTCAACA AGACTCTTAT GGAGGCGGAT GCCCATTATA AGTCAGTTAG GACCACGGTC CCAAGCCCTT CCGAATATGA TAAAAGTTGT TCTGAGAATA CCTCCGCCTA CGGGTAATAT TCAGTCAATC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   T  W  N   E  I  I  P • --------------------- GACTTGGAAT GAGATAATTC CTGAACCTTA CTCTATTAAG                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  S  K   G  C  L   R   V  G  G  R   C  H  P   H  V  N   G  V  F  F   N  G  I   I  L  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1301 CCTCCAAAGG ATGTCTGAGA GTCGGTGGGA GATGCCACCC CCATGTCAAT GGGGTGTTCT TTAACGGAAT CATCCTGGGA GGAGGTTTCC TACAGACTCT CAGCCACCCT CTACGGTGGG GGTACAGTTA CCCCACAAGA AATTGCCTTA GTAGGACCCT    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  P  D  G  N   V  L  I • --------------------- CCTGACGGGA ACGTGCTGAT GGACTGCCCT TGCACGACTA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • P  E  M   Q  S  S  L   L  O  Q   H  M  E   L  L  V  S   S  V  I   P  L  M   H  P  L  A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1401 TCCCGAGATG CAATCTTCCC TTCTGCAGCA ACACATGGAA CTCCTGGTGT CTTCAGTGAT ACCCCTGATG CACCCACTGG AGGGCTCTAC GTTAGAAGGG AAGACGTCGT TGTGTACCTT GAGGACCACA GAAGTCACTA TGGGGACTAC GTGGGTGACC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    D  P  S   T  V  F --------------------- CCGACCCCAG CACTGTGTTC GGCTGGGGTC GTGACACAAG                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  N  G  D   E  A  E   D  F  V   E  V  H  L   P  D  V   H  E  R   I  S  G  V   D  L  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1501 AAAAATGGCG ATGAGGCCGA AGACTTTGTG GAAGTTCACC TGCCCGATGT ACACGAAAGG ATATCTGGAG TAGACCTGGG TTTTTACCGC TACTCCGGCT TCTGAAACAC CTTCAAGTGG ACGGGCTACA TGTGCTTTCC TATAGACCTC ATCTGGACCC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   L  P  N   W  G  K  Y • --------------------- CCTTCCTAAT TGGGGTAAGT GGAAGGATTA ACCCCATTCA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  L  L   S  A  G   A  L  T  A   L  M  L   I  I  F   L  M  T  C   W  R  R   V  N  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1601 ACGTGCTCCT GAGTGCGGGT GCCTTGACCG CTTTGATGCT GATCATTTTT CTGATGACCT GCTGGCGGAG GGTGAATCGC TGCACGAGGA CTCACGCCCA CGGAACTGGC GAAACTACGA CTAGTAAAAA GACTACTGGA CGACCGCCTC CCACTTAGCG    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  S  E  P  T   Q  H  N • --------------------- TCCGAGCCGA CACAGCACAA AGGCTCGGCT GTGTCGTGTT                                         Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  R  G   T  G  R  E   V  S  V   T  P  Q   S  G  K  I   I  S  S   W  E  S   Y  K  S  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1701 TCTCAGAGGG ACAGGCCGGG AAGTAAGTGT GACTCCGCAA TCTGGCAAGA TTATTAGTAG TTGGGAGAGT TACAAGTCTG AGAGTCTCCC TGTCCGGCCC TTCATTCACA CTGAGGCGTT AGACCGTTCT AATAATCATC AACCCTCTCA ATGTTCAGAC Rabies-G protein ------------------                   FMDV 2A                   ---    G  E  T   G  L  N --------------------- GAGGAGAGAC TGGGTTGAAT CTCCTCTCTG ACCCAACTTA                                                     preNS1 signal                                                     ----------                     FMDV 2A                                            NS1 signal ----------------------------------------------------          --------------------------  F  D  L  L   K  L  A   G  D  V   E  S  N  P   G  P  A   R  D  R   S  I  A  L   T  F  L ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1801 TTTGATCTGC TCAAACTTGC AGGCGATGTA GAATCAAATC CTGGACCCGC CCGGGACAGG TCCATAGCTC TCACGTTTCT AAACTAGACG AGTTTGAACG TCCGCTACAT CTTAGTTTAG GACCTGGGCG GGCCCTGTCC AGGTATCGAG AGTGCAAAGA      NS1 signal ---------------------   A  V  G   G  V  L  L • --------------------- CGCAGTTGGA GGAGTTCTGC GCGTCAACCT CCTCAAGACG         NS1 signal ----------------------------                                                                NS1                             ------------------------------------------------------------ •  F  L  S   V  N  V   H  A  D  T   G  C  A   I  D  I   S  R  Q  E   L  R  C   G  S  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 TCTTCCTCTC CGTGAACGTG CACGCTGACA CTGGGTGTGC CATAGACATC AGCCGGCAAG AGCTGAGATG TGGAAGTGGA AGAAGGAGAG GCACTTGCAC GTGCGACTGT GACCCACACG GTATCTGTAG TCGGCCGTTC TCGACTCTAC ACCTTCACCT         NS1 ---------------------  V  F  I  H   N  D  V • --------------------- GTGTTCATAC ACAATGATGT CACAAGTATG TGTTACTACA WN (ΔC)-Rabies G PIV sequence (partial).                                              5′UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA       5′UTR -----------------                  N-                  terminus of C                  ----                   M  S •                  ---- TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                           N-terminus of C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  N   M  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCAA TATGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGTT ATACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA    N-terminus of C ---------------------  G  L  K  Q   K  K  R • --------------------- GGACTTAAGC AAAAGAAGCG CCTGAATTCG TTTTCTTCGC N-terminus of C --        partial C signal                           RAbies-G signal   ---------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- • G  G  K   T  G  I  A   V  I  V   P  Q  A   L  L  F  V   P  L  L   V  F  P   L  C  F  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 201 AGGGGGCAAG ACTGGTATAG CTGTGATCGT TCCTCAGGCT CTTTTGTTTG TACCCTTGCT GGTATTTCCC CTTTGCTTTG TCCCCCGTTC TGACCATATC GACACTAGCA AGGAGTCCGA GAAAACAAAC ATGGGAACGA CCATAAAGGG GAAAACAAAC    Rabies-G protein   -------------------    K  F  P  I  Y  T --------------------- GTAAATTTCC TATCTATACC CATTTAAAGG ATAGATATGG                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  P  D  K   L  G  P   W  S  P   I  D  I  H   H  L  S   C  P  N   N  L  V  V   E  D  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 301 ATCCCTGATA AGCTCGGGCC TTGGAGTCCC ATTGATATTC ACCATTTGAG CTGCCCAAAC AACCTCGTCG TTGAGGATGA TAGGGACTAT TCGAGCCCGG AACCTCAGGG TAACTATAAG TGGTAAACTC GACGGGTTTG TTGGAGCAGC AACTCCTACT    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    G  C  T   N  L  S  G • --------------------- AGGGTGCACT AATCTTTCTG TCCCACGTGA TTAGAAAGAC                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  F  S  Y   M  E  L   K  V  G  Y   I  S  A   I  K  M   N  G  F  T   C  T  G   V  V  T ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 401 GATTTTCCTA CATGGAGTTG AAAGTGGGCT ATATTTCAGC CATTAAGATG AACGGCTTTA CTTGTACAGG AGTCGTGACC CTAAAAGGAT GTACCTCAAC TTTCACCCGA TATAAAGTCG GTAATTCTAC TTGCCGAAAT GAACATGTCC TCAGCACTGG    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  E  A  E  T   Y  T  N • --------------------- GAAGCCGAGA CATATACAAA CTTCGGCTCT GTATATGTTT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • F  V  G   Y  V  T  T   T  F  K   R  K  H   F  R  P  T   P  D  A   C  R  A   A  Y  N  W ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 501 TTTCGTGGGA TACGTCACCA CCACCTTCAA GAGAAAACAC TTCCGCCCAA CGCCTGACGC TTGTCGGGCC GCTTACAACT AAAGCACCCT ATGCAGTGGT GGTGGAAGTT CTCTTTTGTG AAGGCGGGTT GCGGACTGCG AACAGCCCGG CGAATGTTGA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   K  M  A   G  D  P --------------------- GGAAGATGGC AGGAGATCCT CCTTCTACCG TCCTCTAGGA                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  R  Y  E  E   S  L  H   N  P  Y   P  D  Y  H   W  L  R   T  V  K   T  T  K  E   S  L  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 601 CGATATGAAG AATCTCTGCA CAACCCGTAT CCTGATTACC ATTGGCTGCG GACAGTCAAG ACTACCAAGG AGAGTCTGGT GCTATACTTC TTAGAGACGT GTTGGGCATA GGACTAATGG TAACCGACGC CTGTCAGTTC TGATGGTTCC TCTCAGACCA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   I  I  S   P  S  V  A • --------------------- CATTATATCA CCAAGCGTGG GTAATATAGT GGTTCGCACC                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  D  L  D   P  Y  D   R  S  L  H   S  R  V   F  P  G   G  N  C  S   G  V  A   V  S  S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 701 CCGATCTTGA TCCTTATGAT AGATCCCTGC ACAGTAGGGT TTTTCCTGGC GGGAATTGTA GCGGTGTTGC AGTATCAAGT GGCTAGAACT AGGAATACTA TCTAGGGACG TGTCATCCCA AAAAGGACCG CCCTTAACAT CGCCACAACG TCATAGTTCA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  T  Y  C  S   T  N  H • --------------------- ACCTACTGCT CCACTAACCA TGGATGACGA GGTGATTGGT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  Y  T   I  W  M  P   E  N  P   R  L  G   M  S  C  D   I  F  T   N  S  R   G  K  R  A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 801 CGACTACACT ATATGGATGC CTGAGAACCC TCGACTCGGT ATGAGTTGCG ACATTTTTAC GAACTCACGG GGCAAGCGGG GCTGATGTGA TATACCTACG GACTCTTGGG AGCTGAGCCA TACTCAACGC TGTAAAAATG CTTGAGTGCC CCGTTCGCCC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    S  K  G   S  E  T --------------------- CATCTAAGGG GTCTGAAACA GTAGATTCCC CAGACTTTGT                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  C  G  F  V   D  E  R   G  L  Y   K  S  L  K   G  A  C   K  L  K   L  C  G  V   L  G  L ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 901 TGCGGGTTTG TTGATGAGCG GGGGTTGTAT AAATCTCTTA AAGGCGCCTG TAAGCTGAAA CTCTGTGGCG TACTGGGGCT ACGCCCAAAC AACTACTCGC CCCCAACATA TTTAGAGAAT TTCCGCGGAC ATTCGACTTT GAGACACCGC ATGACCCCGA    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   R  L  M   D  G  T  W • --------------------- GCGCCTGATG GACGGCACAT CGCGGACTAC CTGCCGTGTA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  A  M   Q  T  S   N  E  T  K   W  C  P   P  G  Q   L  V  N  L   H  D  F   R  S  D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1001 GGGTGGCTAT GCAGACAAGC AATGAAACAA AGTGGTGTCC CCCTGGTCAG CTGGTTAATC TGCACGACTT TAGGTCTGAC CCCACCGATA CGTCTGTTCG TTACTTTGTT TCACCACAGG GGGACCAGTC GACCAATTAG ACGTGCTGAA ATCCAGACTG    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  E  I  E  H   L  V  V • --------------------- GAAATCGAGC ACCTTGTGGT CTTTAGCTCG TGGAACACCA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  E  L   V  K  K  R   E  E  C   L  D  A   L  E  S  T   M  T  T   K  S  V   S  F  R  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1101 GGAGGAACTG GTGAAGAAAC GCGAAGAGTG CCTGGACGCA CTTGAGAGTA TTATGACCAC CAAATCCGTT TCCTTCAGAA CCTCCTTGAC CACTTCTTTG CGCTTCTCAC GGACCTGCGT GAACTCTCAT AATACTGGTG GTTTAGGCAA AGGAAGTCTT    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    L  S  H   L  R  K --------------------- GACTGAGCCA CCTGCGAAAG CTGACTCGGT GGACGCTTTC                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  L  V  P  G   F  G  K   A  Y  T   I  F  N  K   T  L M   E  A  D   A  H  Y  K   S  V  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1201 CTGGTGCCAG GGTTCGGGAA GGCTTATACT ATTTTCAACA AGACTCFTAT GGAGGCGGAT GCCCATTATA AGTCAGTTAG GACCACGGTC CCAAGCCCTT CCGAATATGA TAAAAGTTGT TCTGAGAATA CCTCCGCCTA CGGGTAATAT TCAGTCAATC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   T  W  N   E  I  I  P • --------------------- GACTTGGAAT GAGATAATTC CTGAACCTTA CTCTATTAAG                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  S  K  G   C  L  R   V  G  G  R   C  H  P   H  V  N   G  V  F  F   N  G  I   I  L  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1301 CCTCCAAAGG ATGTCTGAGA GTCGGTGGGA GATGCCACCC CCATGTCAAT GGGGTGTTCT TTAACGGAAT CATCCFGGGA GGAGGTTTCC TACAGACTCT CAGCCACCCT CTACGGTGGG GGTACAGTTA CCCCACAAGA AATTGCCTTA GTAGGACCCT    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  P  D  G  N   V  L  I • --------------------- CCTGACGGGA ACGTGCTGAT GGACTGCCCT TGCACGACTA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  P  E  M   Q  S  S  L   L  Q  Q   H  M  E   L  L  V  S   S  V  I   P  L  M   H  P  L  A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1401 TCCCGAGATG CAATCTTCCC TTCTGCAGCA ACACATGGAA CTCCTGGTGT CTTCAGTGAT ACCCCTGATG CACCCACTGG AGGGCTCTAC GTTAGAAGGG AAGACGTCGT TGTGTACCTT GAGGACCACA GAAGTCACTA TGGGGACTAC GTGGGTGACC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------    D  P  S   T  V  F --------------------- CCGACCCCAG CACTGTGTTC GGCTGGGGTC GTGACACAAG                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  N  G  D   E  A  E   D  F  V   E  V  H  L   P  D  V   H  E  R   I  S  G  V   D  L  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1501 AAAAATGGCG ATGAGGCCGA AGACTTTGTG GAAGTTCACC TGCCCGATGT ACACGAAAGG ATATCTGGAG TAGACCTGGG TTTTACCGC TACTCCGGCT TCTGAAACAC CTTCAAGTGG ACGGGCTACA TGTGCTTTCC TATAGACCTC ATCTGGACCC    Rabies-G protein ---------------------   L  P  N   W  G  K  Y • --------------------- CCTTCCTAAT TGGGGTAAGT GGAAGGATTA ACCCCATTCA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  L  L   S  A  G   A  L  T  A   L  M  L   I  I  F   L  M  T  C   W  R  R   V  N  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1601 ACGTGCTCCT GAGTGCGGGT GCCTTGACCG CTTTGATGCT GATCATTTTT CTGATGACCT GCTGGCGGAG GGTGAATCGC TGCACGAGGA CTCACGCCCA CGGAACTGGC GAAACTACGA CTAGTAAAAA GACTACTGGA CGACCGCCTC CCACTTAGCG    Rabies-G protein ---------------------  S  E  P  T   Q  H  N • --------------------- TCCGAGCCGA CACAGCACAA AGGCTCGGCT GTGTCGTGTT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  R  G   T  G  R  E   V  S  V   T  P  Q   S  G  K  I   I  S  S   W  E  S   Y  K  S  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1701 TCTCAGAGGG ACAGGCCGGG AAGTAAGTGT GACTCCGCAA TCTGGCAAGA TTATTAGTAG TTGGGAGAGT TACAAGTCTG AGAGTCTCCC TGTCCGGCCC TTCATTCACA CTGAGGCGTT AGACCGTTCT AATAATCATC AACCCTCTCA ATGTTCAGAC                   FMDV 2A                   --- Rabies-G protein ------------------    G  E  T   G  L  N --------------------- GAGGAGAGAC TGGGTTGAAT CTCCTCTCTG ACCCAACTTA                                                                   C/prM singal                                                    -------------------------------------                     FMDV 2A ----------------------------------------------------  F  D  L  L   K  L  A   G  D  V   E  S  N  P   G  P  G   G  K  T   G  I  A  V   M  I  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1801 TTTGATCTGC TCAAACTTGC AGGCGATGTA GAATCAAATC CTGGACCCGG AGGAAAGACC GGTATTGCAG TCATGATTGG AAACTAGACG AGTTTGAACG TCCGCTACAT CTTAGTTTAG GACCTGGGCC TCCTTTCTGG CCATAACGTC AGTACTAACC    C/prM singal ---------------------   L  I  A   C  V  G  A • --------------------- CCTGATCGCC TGCGTAGGAG GGACTAGCGG ACGCATCCTC C/prM signal --                                                  prM   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  T  L   S  N  F   Q  G  K  V   M  M  T   V  N  A   T  D  V  T   D  V  I   T  I  P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 CAGTTACCCT CTCTAACTTC CAAGGGAAGG TGATGATGAC GGTAAATGCT ACTGACGTCA CAGATGTCAT CACGATTCCA GTCAATGGGA GAGATTGAAG GTTCCCTTCC ACTACTACTG CCATTTACGA TGACTGCAGT GTCTACAGTA GTGCTAAGGT         prM ---------------------  T  A  A  G   K  N  L • --------------------- ACAGCTGCTG GAAAGAACCT TGTCGACGAC CTTTCTTGGA                                                  prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • C  I  V   R  A  M  D   V  G  Y   M  C  D   D  T  I  T   Y  E  C   P  V  L   S  A  G  N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2001 ATGCATTGTC AGAGCAATGG ATGTGGGATA CATGTGCGAT GATACTATCA CTTATGAATG CCCAGTGCTG TCGGCTGGTA TACGTAACAG TCTCGTTACC TACACCCTAT GTACACGCTA CTATGATAGT GAATACTTAC GGGTCACGAC AGCCGACCAT         prM ---------------------    D  P  E   D  I  D --------------------- ATGATCCAGA AGACATCGAC TACTAGGTCT TCTGTAGCTG                                                  prM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  C  W  C  T   K  S  A   V  Y  V   R  Y  G  R   C  T  K   T  R  H   S  R  R  S   R  R  S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2101 TGTTGGTGCA CAAAGTCAGC AGTCTACGTC AGGTATGGAA GATGCACCAA GACACGCCAC TCAAGACGCA GTCGGAGGTC ACAACCACGT GTTTCAGTCG TCAGATGCAG TCCATACCTT CTACGTGGTT CTGTGCGGTG AGTTCTGCGT CAGCCTCCAG         prM ---------------------   L  T  V   Q  T  H  G • --------------------- ACTGACAGTG CAGACACACG TGACTGTCAC GTCTGTGTGC                                                  prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  S  T   L  A  N   K  K  G  A   W  M  D   S  T  K   A  T  R  Y   L  V  K   T  E  S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2201 GAGAAAGCAC TCTAGCGAAC AAGAAGGGGG CTTGGATGGA CAGCACCAAG GCCACAAGGT ATTTGGTAAA AACAGAATCA CTCTTTCGTG AGATCGCTTG TTCTTCCCCC GAACCTACCT GTCGTGGTTC CGGTGTTCCA TAAACCATTT TTGTCTTAGT         prM ---------------------  W  I  L  R   N  P  G • --------------------- TGGATCTTGA GGAACCCTGG ACCTAGAACT CCTTGGGACC                                                  prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Y  A  L   V  A  A  V   I  G  W   M  L  G   S  N  T  M   Q  R  V   V  F  V   V  L  L  L ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2301 ATATGCCCTG GTGGCAGCCG TCATTGGTTG GATGCTTGGG AGCAACACCA TGCAGAGAGT TGTGTTTGTC GTGCTATTGC TATACGGGAC CACCGTCGGC AGTAACCAAC CTACGAACCC TCGTTGTGGT ACGTCTCTCA ACACAAACAG CACGATAACG         prM ---------------------    L  V  A   P  A  Y --------------------- TTTTGGTGGC CCCAGCTTAC AAAACCACCG GGGTCGAATG                                                    E    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- prM ---  S  F  N  C   L  G  M   S  N  R   D  F  L  E   G  V  S   G  A  T   W  V  D  L   V  L  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2401 AGCTTTAACT GCCTTGGAAT GAGCAACAGA GACTTCTTGG AAGGAGTGTC TGGAGCAACA TGGGTGGATT TGGTTCTCGA TCGAAATTGA CGGAACCTTA CTCGTTGTCT CTGAAGAACC TTCCTCACAG ACCTCGTTGT ACCCACCTAA ACCAAGAGCT           E ---------------------   G  D  S   C  V  T  I • --------------------- AGGCGACAGC TGCGTGACTA TCCGCTGTCG ACGCACTGAT                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  M  S  K   D  K  P   T  I  D  V   K  M  M   N  M  E   A  A  N  L   A  E  V   R  S  Y ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2501 TCATGTCTAA GGACAAGCCT ACCATCGATG TGAAGATGAT GAATATGGAG GCGGCCAACC TGGCAGAGGT CCGCAGTTAT AGTACAGATT CCTGTTCGGA TGGTAGCTAC ACTTCTACTA CTTATACCTC CGCCGGTTGG ACCGTCTCCA GGCGTCAATA           E ---------------------  C  Y  L  A   T  V  S • --------------------- TGCTATTTGG CTACCGTCAG ACGATAAACC GATGGCAGTC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  L  S   T  K  A  A   C  P  A   M  G  E   A  H  N  D   K  R  A   D  P  A   F  V  C  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2601 CGATCTCTCC ACCAAAGCTG CGTGCCCGGC CATGGGAGAA GCTCACAATG ACAAACGTGC TGACCCAGCT TTTGTGTGCA GCTAGAGAGG TGGTTTCGAC GCACGGGCCG GTACCCTCTT CGAGTGTTAC TGTTTGCACG ACTGGGTCGA AAACACACGT           E ---------------------    Q  G  V   V  D  R --------------------- GACAAGGAGT GGTGGACAGG CTGTTCCTCA CCACCTGTCC                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  G  W  G  N   G  C  G   L  F  G   K  G  S  I   D  T  C   A  K  F   A  C  S  T   K  A  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2701 GGCTGGGGCA ACGGCTGCGG ACTATTTGGC AAAGGAAGCA TTGACACATG CGCCAAATTT GCCTGCTCTA CCAAGGCAAT CCGACCCCGT TGCCGACGCC TGATAAACCG TTTCCTTCGT AACTGTGTAC GCGGTTTAAA CGGACGAGAT GGTTCCGTTA           E ---------------------   G  R  T   I  L  K  E • --------------------- AGGAAGAACC ATTTTGAAAG TCCTTCTTGG TAAAACTTTC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  N  I  K   Y  E  V   A  I  F  V   H  G  P   T  T  V   E  S  H  G   N  Y  S   T  Q  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2801 AGAATATCAA GTACGAAGTG GCCATTTTTG TCCATGGACC AACTACTGTG GAGTCGCACG GAAACTACTC CACACAGGTT TCTTATAGTT CATGCTTCAC CGGTAAAAAC AGGTACCTGG TTGATGACAC CTCAGCGTGC CTTTGATGAG GTGTGTCCAA           E ---------------------   G  A  T  Q   A  G  R --------------------- GGAGCCACTC AGGCAGGGAG CCTCGGTGAG TCCGTCCCTC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • F  S  I   T  P  A  A   P  S  Y   T  L  K   L  G  E  Y   G  E  V   T  V  D   C  E  P  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2901 ATTCAGCATC ACTCCTGCGG CGCCTTCATA CACACTAAAG CTTGGAGAAT ATGGAGAGGT GACAGTGGAC TGTGAACCAC TAAGTCGTAG TGAGGACGCC GCGGAAGTAT GTGTGATTTC GAACCTCTTA TACCTCTCCA CTGTCACCTG ACACTTGGTG           E ---------------------    S  G  I   D  T  N --------------------- GGTCAGGGAT TGACACCAAT CCAGTCCCTA ACTGTGGTTA                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  A  Y  Y  V   M  T  V   G  T  K   T  F  L  V   H  R  E   W  F  M   D  L  N  L   P  W  S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3001 GCATACTACG TGATGACTGT TGGAACAAAG ACGTTCTTGG TCCATCGTGA GTGGTTCATG GACCTCAACC TCCCTTGGAG CGTATGATGC ACTACTGACA ACCTTGTTTC TGCAAGAACC AGGTAGCACT CACCAAGTAC CTGGAGTTGG AGGGAACCTC           E ---------------------   S  A  G   S  T  V  W • --------------------- CAGTGCTGGA AGTACTGTGT GTCACGACCT TCATGACACA                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  R  N  R   E  T  L   M  E  F  E   E  P  H   A  T  K   Q  S  V  I   A  L  G   S  Q  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3101 GGAGGAACAG AGAGACGTTA ATGGAGTTTG AGGAACCACA CGCCACGAAG CAGTCTGTGA TAGCATTGGG CTCACAAGAG CCTCCTTGTC TCTCTGCAAT TACCTCAAAC TCCTTGGTGT GCGGTGCTTC GTCAGACACT ATCGTAACCC GAGTGTTCTC           E ---------------------  G  A  L  H   Q  A  L • --------------------- GGAGCTCTGC ATCAAGCTTT CCTCGAGACG TAGTTCGAAA                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • A  G  A   I  P  V  E   F  S  S   N  T  V   K  L  T  S   G  H  L   K  C  R   V  K  M  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3201 GGCTGGAGCC ATTCCTGTGG AATTTTCAAG CAACACTGTC AAGTTGACGT CGGGTCATTT GAAGTGTAGA GTGAAGATGG CCGACCTCGG TAAGGACACC TTAAAAGTTC GTTGTGACAG TTCAACTGCA GCCCAGTAAA CTTCACATCT CACTTCTACC           E ---------------------    K  L  Q   L  K  G --------------------- AAAAATTGCA GTTGAAGGGA TTTTTAACGT CAACTTCCCT                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  T  T  Y  G   V  C  S   K  A  F   K  F  L  G   T  P  A   D  T  G   H  G  T  V   V  L  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3301 ACAACCTATG GCGTCTGTTC AAAGGCTTTC AAGTTTCTTG GGACTCCCGC AGACACAGGT CACGGCACTG TGGTGTTGGA TGTTGGATAC CGCAGACAAG TTTCCGAAAG TTCAAAGAAC CCTGAGGGCG TCTGTGTCCA GTGCCGTGAC ACCACAACCT           E ---------------------   L  Q  Y   T  G  T  D • --------------------- ATTGCAGTAC ACTGGCACGG TAACGTCATG TGACCGTGCC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  G  P  C   K  V  P   I  S  S  V   A  S  L   N  D  L   T  P  V  G   R  L  V   T  V  N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3401 ATGGACCTTG CAAAGTTCCT ATCTCGTCAG TGGCTTCATT GAACGACCTA ACGCCAGTGG GCAGATTGGT CACTGTCAAC TACCTGGAAC GTTTCAAGGA TAGAGCAGTC ACCGAAGTAA CTTGCTGGAT TGCGGTCACC CGTCTAACCA GTGACAGTTG           E --------------------- P  F  V  S   V  A  T • --------------------- CCTTTTGTTT CAGTGGCCAC GGAAAACAAA GTCACCGGTG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • A  N  A   K  V  L  I   E  L  E   P  P  F   G  D  S  Y   I  V  V   G  R  G   E  Q  Q  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3501 GGCCAACGCT AAGGTCCTGA TTGAATTGGA ACCACCCTTT GGAGACTCAT ACATAGTGGT GGGCAGAGGA GAACAACAGA CCGGTTGCGA TTCCAGGACT AACTTAACCT TGGTGGGAAA CCTCTGAGTA TGTATCACCA CCCGTCTCCT CTTGTTGTCT           E ---------------------    N  H  H  W  H  K --------------------- TCAATCACCA CTGGCACAAG AGTTAGTGGT GACCGTGTTC                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  S  G  S  S   I  G  K   A  F  T   T  T  L  K   G  A  Q   R  L  A   A  L  G  D   T  A  W ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3601 TCTGGAAGCA GCATTGGCAA AGCCTTTACA ACCACCCTCA AAGGAGCGCA GAGACTAGCC GCTCTAGGAG ACACAGCTTG AGACCTTCGT CGTAACCGTT TCGGAAATGT TGGTGGGAGT TTCCTCGCGT CTCTGATCGG CGAGATCCTC TGTGTCGAAC           E ---------------------   D  F  G   S  V  G  G • --------------------- GGACTTTGGA TCAGTTGGAG CCTGAAACCT AGTCAACCTC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  F  T   S  V  G   K  A  V  H   Q  V  F   G  G  A   F  R  S  L   F  G  G   M  S  W ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3701 GGGTGTTCAC CTCAGTTGGG AAGGCTGTCC ATCAAGTGTT CGGAGGAGCA TTCCGCTCAC TGTTCGGAGG CATGTCCTGG CCCACAAGTG GAGTCAACCC TTCCGACAGG TAGTTCACAA GCCTCCTCGT AAGGCGAGTG ACAAGCCTCC GTACAGGACC           E ---------------------  I  T  Q  G   L  L  G • --------------------- ATAACGCAAG GATTGCTGGG TATTGCGTTC CTAACGACCC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • A  L  L   L  W  M  G   I  N  A   R  D  R   S  I  A  L   T  F  L   A  V  G   G  V  L  L ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3801 GGCTCTCCTG TTGTGGATGG GCATCAATGC TCGTGACAGG TCCATAGCTC TCACGTTTCT CGCAGTTGGA GGAGTTCTGC CCGAGAGGAC AACACCTACC CGTAGTTACG AGCACTGTCC AGGTATCGAG AGTGCAAAGA GCGTCAACCT CCTCAAGACG           E ---------------------    F  L  S   V  N  V --------------------- TCTTCCTCTC CGTGAACGTG AGAAGGAGAG GCACTTGCAC   E ------                                                    NS1       ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  H  A  D  T   G  C  A   I  D  I   S  R  Q  E   L  R  C   G  S  G   V  F  I  H   N  D  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3901 CACGCTGACA CTGGGTGTGC CATAGACATC AGCCGGCAAG AGCTGAGATG TGGAAGTGGA GTGTTCATAC ACAATGATGT GTGCGACTGT GACCCACACG GTATCTGTAG TCCCCCGTTC TCGACTCTAC ACCTTCACCT CACAAGTATG TGTTACTACA         NS1 ---------------------   E  A  W   M  D  R  Y • --------------------- GGAGGCTTGG ATGGACCGGT CCTCCGAACC TACCTGGCCA WN (ΔprME)-Rabies G PIV sequence (partial)                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA                  C protein                  ----       5′ UTR -----------------                   M  S•                  ---- TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  Y   L  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCTA TTTGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGAT AAACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA     C protein ---------------------  G  L  K  R   A  M  L • --------------------- GGACTTAAGA GGGCTATGTT CCTGAATTCT CCCGATACAA                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  L  I   D  G  K  G   P  I  R   F  V  L   A  L  L  A   F  F  R   F  T  A   I  A  P  T ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 201 GAGCCTGATC GACGGCAAGG GGCCAATACG ATTTGTGTTG GCTCTCTTGG CGTTCTTCAG GTTCACAGCA ATTGCTCCGA CTCGGACTAG CTGCCGTTCC CCGGTTATGC TAAACACAAC CGAGAGAACC GCAAGAAGTC CAAGTGTCGT TAACGAGGCT     C protein ---------------------    R  A  V   L  D  R --------------------- CCCGAGCAGT GCTGGATCGA GGGCTCGTCA CGACCTAGCT                                              C protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  W  R  G  V   N  K  Q   T  A  M   K  H  L  L   S  F  K   K  E  L   G  T  L  T   S  A  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 301 TGGAGAGGTG TGAACAAACA AACAGCGATG AAACACCTTC TGAGTTTCAA GAAGGAACTA GGGACCTTGA CCAGTGCTAT ACCTCTCCAC ACTTGTTTGT TTGTCGCTAC TTTGTGGAAG ACTCAAAGTT CTTCCTTGAT CCCTGGAACT GGTCACGATA     C protein ---------------------   N  R  R   S  S  K  Q • --------------------- CAATCGGCGG AGCTCAAAGC GTTAGCCGCC TCGAGTTTCG                                                             Rabies-G signal                                          -----------------------------------------------  C protein        partial C signal protein ------------ ---------------------------- •  K  K  R   G  G  K   T  G  I  A   V  I  V   P  Q  A   L  L  F  V   P  L  L   V  F  P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 401 AAAAGAAGCG AGGGGGCAAG ACTGGTATAG CTGTGATCGT TCCTCAGGCT CTTTTGTTTG TACCCTTGCT GGTATTTCCC TTTTCTTCGC TCCCCCGTTC TGACCATATC GACACTAGCA AGGAGTCCGA GAAAACAAAC ATGGGAACGA CCATAAAGGG    Rabies-G    signal -------------              RAbies-G              --------  L  C  F  G   K  F  P• --------------------- CTTTGCTTTG GTAAATTTCC GAAACGAAAC CATTTAAAGG                                           RAbies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • I  Y  T   I  P  D  K   L  G  P   W  S  P   I  D  I  H   H  L  S   C  P  N   N  L  V  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 501 TATCTATACC ATCCCTGATA AGCTCGGGCC TTGGAGTCCC ATTGATATTC ACCATTTGAG CTGCCCAAAC AACCTCGTCG ATAGATATGG TAGGGACTAT TCGAGCCCGG AACCTCAGGG TAACTATAAG TGGTAAACTC GACGGGTTTG TTGGAGCAGC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------    E  D  E  G  C  T --------------------- TTGAGGATGA AGGGTGCACT AACTCCTACT TCCCACGTGA                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  N  L  S  G   F  S  Y   M  E  L   K  V  G  Y   I  S  A   I  K  M   N  G  F  T   C  T  G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 601 AATCTTTCTG GATTTTCCTA CATGGAGTTG AAAGTGGGCT ATATTTCAGC CATTAAGATG AACGGCTTTA CTTGTACAGG TTAGAAAGAC CTAAAAGGAT GTACCTCAAC TTTCACCCGA TATAAAGTCG GTAATTCTAC TTGCCGAAAT GAACATGTCC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------   V  V  T   E  A  E  T • --------------------- AGTCGTGACC GAAGCCGAGA TCAGCACTGG CTTCGGCTCT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Y  T  N   F  V  G   Y  V  T  T   T  F  K   R  K  H   F  R  P  T   P  D  A   C  R  A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 701 CATATACAAA TTTCGTGGGA TACGTCACCA CCACCTTCAA GAGAAAACAC TTCCGCCCAA CGCCTGACGC TTGTCGGGCC GTATATGTTT AAAGCACCCT ATGCAGTGGT GGTGGAAGTT CTCTTTTGTG AAGGCGGGTT GCGGACTGCG AACAGCCCGG    RAbies-G protein ---------------------  A  Y  N  W   K  M  A • --------------------- GCTTACAACT GGAAGATGGC CGAATGTTGA CCTTCTACCG                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  D  P   R  Y  E  E   S  L  H   N  P  Y   P  D  Y  H   W  L  R   T  V  K   T  T  K  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 801 AGGAGATCCT CGATATGAAG AATCTCTGCA CAACCCGTAT CCTGATTACC ATTGGCTGCG GACAGTCAAG ACTACCAAGG TCCTCTAGGA GCTATACTTC TTAGAGACGT GTTGGGCATA GGACTAATGG TAACCGACGC CTGTCAGTTC TGATGGTTCC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------    S  L  V   I  I  S --------------------- AGAGTCTGGT CATTATATCA TCTCAGACCA GTAATATAGT                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  P  S  V  A   D  L  D   P  Y  D   R  S  L  H   S  R  V   F  P  G   G  N  C  S   G  V  A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 901 CCAAGCGTGG CCGATCTTGA TCCTTATGAT AGATCCCTGC ACAGTAGGGT TTTTCCTGGC GGGAATTGTA GCGGTGTTGC GGTTCGCACC GGCTAGAACT AGGAATACTA TCTAGGGACG TGTCATCCCA AAAAGGACCG CCCTTAACAT CGCCACAACG    RAbies-G protein ---------------------   V  S  S   T  Y  C  S • --------------------- AGTATCAAGT ACCTACTGCT TCATAGTTCA TGGATGACGA                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  N  H   D  Y  T   I  W  M  P   E  N  P   R  L  G   M  S  C  D   I  F  T   N  S  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1001 CCACTAACCA CGACTACACT ATATGGATGC CTGAGAACCC TCGACTCGGT ATGAGTTGCG ACATTTTTAC GAACTCACGG GGTGATTGGT GCTGATGTGA TATACCTACG GACTCTTGGG AGCTGAGCCA TACTCAACGC TGTAAAAATG CTTGAGTGCC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------  G  K  R  A   S  K  G • --------------------- GGCAAGCGGG CATCTAAGGG CCGTTCGCCC GTAGATTCCC                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  E  T   C  G  F  V   D  E  R   G  L  Y   K  S  L  K   G  A  C   K  L  K   L  C  G  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1101 GTCTGAAACA TGCGGGTTTG TTGATGAGCG GGGGTTGTAT AAATCTCTTA AAGGCGCCTG TAAGCTGAAA CTCTGTGGCG CAGACTTTGT ACGCCCAAAC AACTACTCGC CCCCAACATA TTTAGAGAAT TTCCGCGGAC ATTCGACTTT GAGACACCGC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------    L  G  L   R  L  M --------------------- TACTGGGGCT GCGCCTGATG ATGACCCCGA CGCGGACTAC                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  G  T  W   V  A  M   Q  T  S   N  E  T  K   W  C  P   P  G  Q   L  V  N  L   H  D  F ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1201 GACGGCACAT GGGTGGCTAT GCAGACAAGC AATGAAACAA AGTGGTGTCC CCCTGGTCAG CTGGTTAATC TGCACGACTT CTGCCGTGTA CCCACCGATA CGTCTGTTCG TTACTTTGTT TCACCACAGG GGGACCAGTC GACCAATTAG ACGTGCTGAA    RAbies-G protein ---------------------   R  S  D   E  I  E  H • --------------------- TAGGTCTGAC GAAATCGAGC ATCCAGACTG CTTTAGCTCG                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  L  V  V   E  E  L   V  K  K  R   E  E  C   L  D  A   L  E  S  I   M  T  T   K  S  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1301 ACCTTGTGGT GGAGGAACTG GTGAAGAAAC GCGAAGAGTG CCTGGACGCA CTTGAGAGTA TTATGACCAC CAAATCCGTT TGGAACACCA CCTCCTTGAC CACTTCTTTG CGCTTCTCAC GGACCTGCGT GAACTCTCAT AATACTGGTG GTTTAGGCAA    RAbies-G protein ---------------------  S  F  R  R   L  S  H • --------------------- TCCTTCAGAA GACTGAGCCA AGGAAGTCTT CTGACTCGGT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  R  K   L  V  P  G   F  G  K   A  Y  T   I  F  N  K   T  L  M   E  A  D   A  H  Y  K ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1401 CCTGCGAAAG CTGGTGCCAG GGTTCGGGAA GGCTTATACT ATTTTCAACA AGACTCTTAT GGAGGCGGAT GCCCATTATA GGACGCTTTC GACCACGGTC CCAAGCCCTT CCGAATATGA TAAAAGTTGT TCTGAGAATA CCTCCGCCTA CGGGTAATAT    RAbies-G protein ---------------------    S  V  R   T  W  N --------------------- AGTCAGTTAG GACTTGGAAT TCAGTCAATC CTGAACCTTA                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  I  I  P   S  K  G   C  L  R   V  G  G  R   C  H  P   H  V  N   G  V  F  F   N  G  I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1501 GAGATAATTC CCTCCAAAGG ATGTCTGAGA GTCGGTGGGA GATGCCACCC CCATGTCAAT GGGGTGTTCT TTAACGGAAT CTCTATTAAG GGAGGTTTCC TACAGACTCT CAGCCACCCT CTACGGTGGG GGTACAGTTA CCCCACAAGA AATTGCCTTA    RAbies-G protein ---------------------   I  L  G   P  D  G  N • --------------------- CATCCTGGGA CCTGACGGGA GTAGGACCCT GGACTGCCCT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  L  I   P  E  M   Q  S  S  L   L  Q  Q   H  M  E   L  L  V  S   S  V  I   P  L  M ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1601 ACGTGCTGAT TCCCGAGATG CAATCTTCCC TTCTGCAGCA ACACATGGAA CTCCTGGTGT CTTCAGTGAT ACCCCTGATG TGCACGACTA AGGGCTCTAC GTTAGAAGGG AAGACGTCGT TGTGTACCTT GAGGACCACA GAAGTCACTA TGGGGACTAC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------  H  P  L  A   D  P  S • --------------------- CACCCACTGG CCGACCCCAG GTGGGTGACC GGCTGGGGTC                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  V  F   K  N  G  D   E  A  E   D  F  V   E  V  H  L   P  D  V   H  E  R   I  S  G  V ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1701 CACTGTGTTC AAAAATGGCG ATGAGGCCGA AGACTTTGTG GAAGTTCACC TGCCCGATGT ACACGAAAGG ATATCTGGAG GTGACACAAG TTTTTACCGC TACTCCGGCT TCTGAAACAC CTTCAAGTGG ACGGGCTACA TGTGCTTTCC TATAGACCTC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------    D  L  G   L  P  N --------------------- TAGACCTGGG CCTTCCTAAT ATCTGGACCC GGAAGGATTA                                           Rabies-G protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  W  G  K  Y   V  L  L   S  A  G   A  L  T  A   L  M  L   I  I  F   L  M  T  C   W  R  R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1801 TGGGGTAAGT ACGTGCTCCT GAGTGCGGGT GCCTTGACCG CTTTGATGCT GATCATTTTT CTGATGACCT GCTGGCGGAG ACCCCATTCA TGCACGAGGA CTCACGCCCA CGGAACTGGC GAAACTACGA CTAGTAAAAA GACTACTGGA CGACCGCCTC    RAbies-G protein ---------------------   V  N  R   S  E  P  T • --------------------- GGTGAATCGC TCCGAGCCGA CCACTTAGCG AGGCTCGGCT                                           Rabies-G protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  H  N   L  R  G   T  G  R  E   V  S  V   T  P  Q   S  G  K  I   I  S  S   W  E  S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 CACAGCACAA TCTCAGAGGG ACAGGCCGGG AAGTAAGTGT GACTCCGCAA TCTGGCAAGA TTATTAGTAG TTGGGAGAGT GTGTCGTGTT AGAGTCTCCC TGTCCGGCCC TTCATTCACA CTGAGGCGTT AGACCGTTCT AATAATCATC AACCCTCTCA    RAbies-G protein ---------------------  Y  K  S  G   G  E  T • --------------------- TACAAGTCTG GAGGAGAGAC ATGTTCAGAC CTCCTCTCTG                              FMDV 2A                                         NS1 signal        ---------------------------------------------------------          --------------- RAbies-G protein                                                preNS1 signal -------                                                         ---------- • G  L  N   F  D  L  L   K  L  A   G  D  V   E  S  N  P   G  P  A   R  D  R   S  I  A  L ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2001 TGGGTTGAAT TTTGATCTGC TCAAACTTGC AGGCGATGTA GAATCAAATC CTGGACCCGC CCGGGACAGG TCCATAGCTC ACCCAACTTA AAACTAGACG AGTTTGAACG TCCGCTACAT CTTAGTTTAG GACCTGGGCG GGCCCTGTCC AGGTATCGAG    NS1 signal ---------------------    T  F  L   A  V  G --------------------- TCACGTTTCT CGCAGTTGGA AGTGCAAAGA GCGTCAACCT                                                              NS1                                        -------------------------------------------------              NS1 signal ---------------------------------------  G  V  L  L   F  L  S   V  N  V   H  A  D  T   G  C  A   I  D  I   S  R  Q  E   L  R  C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2101 GGAGTTCTGC TCTTCCTCTC CGTGAACGTG CACGCTGACA CTGGGTGTGC CATAGACATC AGCCGGCAAG AGCTGAGATG CCTCAAGACG AGAAGGAGAG GCACTTGCAC GTGCGACTGT GACCCACACG GTATCTGTAG TCGGCCGTTC TCGACTCTAC      NS1 ---------------------   G  S  G   V  F  I  H • --------------------- TGGAAGTGGA GTGTTCATAC ACCTTCACCT CACAAGTATG PIV-WNV helper ΔNS1                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA                   C                  ----      5′ UTR -----------------                   M  S • TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                                  C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  N   M  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCAA TATGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGTT ATACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA           C ---------------------  G  L  K  R   A  M  L • GGACTTAAGA GGGCTATGTT CCTGAATTCT CCCGATACAA                                                  C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  L  I   D  G  K  G   P  I  R   F  V  L   A  L  L  A   F  F  R   F  T  A   I  A  P  T 201 GAGCCTGATC GACGGCAAGG GGCCAATACG ATTTGTGTTG GCTCTCTTGG CGTTCTTCAG GTTCACAGCA ATTGCTCCGA CTCGGACTAG CTGCCGTTCC CCGGTTATGC TAAACACAAC CGAGAGAACC GCAAGAAGTC CAAGTGTCGT TAACGAGGCT           C ---------------------    R  A  V   L  D  R CCCGAGCAGT GCTGGATCGA GGGCTCGTCA CGACCTAGCT                                                  C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  W  R  G  V   N  K  Q   T  A  M   K  H  L  L   S  F  K   K  E  L   G  T  L  T   S  A  I 301 TGGAGAGGTG TGAACAAACA AACAGCGATG AAACACCTTC TGAGTTTCAA GAAGGAACTA GGGACCTTGA CCAGTGCTAT ACCTCTCCAC ACTTGTTTGT TTGTCGCTAC TTTGTGGAAG ACTCAAAGTT CTTCCTTGAT CCCTGGAACT GGTCACGATA           C ---------------------   N  R  R   S  S  K  Q • CAATCGGCGG AGCTCAAAAC GTTAGCCGCC TCGAGTTTTG                                   Signal peptide             -----------------------------------------------------------      C                                                                          prM ------------                                                           ---------------- •  K  K  R   G  G  K   T  G  I  A   V  M  I   G  L  I   A  S  V  G   A  V  T   L  S  N 401 AAAAGAAAAG AGGAGGAAAG ACCGGAATTG CAGTCATGAT TGGCCTGATC GCCAGCGTAG GAGCAGTTAC CCTCTCTAAC TTTTCTTTTC TCCTCCTTTC TGGCCTTAAC GTCAGTACTA ACCGGACTAG CGGTCGCATC CTCGTCAATG GGAGAGATTG         prM ---------------------  F  Q  G  K   V  M  M • TTCCAAGGGA AGGTGATGAT AAGGTTCCCT TCCACTACTA                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  V  N   A  T  D  V   T  D  V   I  T  I   P  T  A  A   G  K  N   L  C  I   V  R  A  M 501 GACGGTAAAT GCTACTGACG TCACAGATGT CATCACGATT CCAACAGCTG CTGGAAAGAA CCTATGCATT GTCAGAGCAA CTGCCATTTA CGATGACTGC AGTGTCTACA GTAGTGCTAA GGTTGTCGAC GACCTTTCTT GGATACGTAA CAGTCTCGTT         prM ---------------------    D  V  G   Y  M  C TGGATGTGGG ATACATGTGC ACCTACACCC TATGTACACG                                                 prM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  D  T  I   T  Y  E   C  P  V   L  S  A  G   N  D  P   E  D  I   D  C  W  C   T  K  S 601 GATGATACTA TCACTTATGA ATGCCCAGTG CTGTCGGCTG GTAATGATCC AGAAGACATC GACTGTTGGT GCACAAAGTC CTACTATGAT AGTGAATACT TACGGGTCAC GACAGCCGAC CATTACTAGG TCTTCTGTAG CTGACAACCA CGTGTTTCAG         prM ---------------------   A  V  Y   V  R  Y  G • AGCAGTCTAC GTCAGGTATG TCGTCAGATG CAGTCCATAC                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  R  C  T   K  T  R   H  S  R  R   S  R  R   S  L  T   V  Q  T  H   G  E  S   T  L  A 701 GAAGATGCAC CAAGACACGC CACTCAAGAC GCAGTCGGAG GTCACTGACA GTGCAGACAC ACGGAGAAAG CACTCTAGCG CTTCTACGTG GTTCTGTGCG GTGAGTTCTG CGTCAGCCTC CAGTGACTGT CACGTCTGTG TGCCTCTTTC GTGAGATCGC         prM ---------------------  N  K  K  G   A  W  M • AACAAGAAGG GGGCTTGGAT TTGTTCTTCC CCCGAACCTA                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  S  T   K  A  T  R   Y  L  V   K  T  E   S  W  I  L   R  N  P   G  Y  A   L  V  A  A 801 GGACAGCACC AAGGCCACAA GGTATTTGGT AAAAACAGAA TCATGGATCT TGAGGAACCC TGGATATGCC CTGGTGGCAG CCTGTCGTGG TTCCGGTGTT CCATAAACCA TTTTTGTCTT AGTACCTAGA ACTCCTTGGG ACCTATACGG GACCACCGTC         prM ---------------------    V  I  G   W  M  L CCGTCATTGG TTGGATGCTT GGCAGTAACC AACCTACGAA                                                                                E                                                                         ----------------                                prM ------------------------------------------------------------------------  G  S  N  T   M  Q  R   V  V  F   V  V  L  L   L  L  V   A  P  A   Y  S  F  N   C  L  G 901 GGGAGCAACA CCATGCAGAG AGTTGTGTTT GTCGTGCTAT TGCTTTTGGT GGCCCCAGCT TACAGCTTTA ACTGCCTTGG CCCTCGTTGT GGTACGTCTC TCAACACAAA CAGCACGATA ACGAAAACCA CCGGGGTCGA ATGTCGAAAT TGACGGAACC           E ---------------------   M  S  N   R  D  F  L • AATGAGCAAC AGAGACTTCT TTACTCGTTG TCTCTGAAGA                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  G  V   S  G  A   T  W  V  D   L  V  L   E  G  D   S  C  V  T   I  M  S   K  D  K 1001 TGGAAGGAGT GTCTGGAGCA ACATGGGTGG ATTTGGTTCT CGAAGGCGAC AGCTGCGTGA CTATCATGTC TAAGGACAAG ACCTTCCTCA CAGACCTCGT TGTACCCACC TAAACCAAGA GCTTCCGCTG TCGACGCACT GATAGTACAG ATTCCTGTTC           E ---------------------  P  T  I  D   V  K  M • CCTACCATCG ATGTGAAGAT GGATGGTAGC TACACTTCTA                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • M  N  M   E  A  A  N   L  A  E   V  R  S   Y  C  Y  L   A  T  V   S  D  L   S  T  K  A 1101 GATGAATATG GAGGCGGCCA ACCTGGCAGA GGTCCGCAGT TATTGCTATT TGGCTACCGT CAGCGATCTC TCCACCAAAG CTACTTATAC CTCCGCCGGT TGGACCGTCT CCAGGCGTCA ATAACGATAA ACCGATGGCA GTCGCTAGAG AGGTGGTTTC           E ---------------------    A  C  P   A  M  G CTGCGTGCCC GGCCATGGGA GACGCACGGG CCGGTACCCT                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  A  H  N   D  K  R   A  D  P   A  F  V  C   R  Q  G   V  V  D   R  G  W  G   N  G  C 1201 GAAGCTCACA ATGACAAACG TGCTGACCCA GCTTTTGTGT GCAGACAAGG AGTGGTGGAC AGGGGCTGGG GCAACGGCTG CTTCGAGTGT TACTGTTTGC ACGACTGGGT CGAAAACACA CGTCTGTTCC TCACCACCTG TCCCCGACCC CGTTGCCGAC           E ---------------------   G  L  F   G  K  G  S • CGGACTATTT GGCAAAGGAA GCCTGATAAA CCGTTTCCTT                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  I  D  T   C  A  K   F  A  C  S   T  K  A   I  G  R   T  I  L  K   E  N  I   K  Y  E 1301 GCATTGACAC ATGCGCCAAA TTTGCCTGCT CTACCAAGGC AATAGGAAGA ACCATTTTGA AAGAGAATAT CAAGTACGAA CGTAACTGTG TACGCGGTTT AAACGGACGA GATGGTTCCG TTATCCTTCT TGGTAAAACT TTCTCTTATA GTTCATGCTT           E ---------------------  V  A  I  F   V  H  G • GTGGCCATTT TTGTCCATGG CACCGGTAAA AACAGGTACC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • P  T  T   V  E  S  H   G  N  Y   S  T  Q   V  G  A  T   Q  A  G   R  F  S   I  T  P  A 1401 ACCAACTACT GTGGAGTCGC ACGGAAACTA CTCCACACAG GTTGGAGCCA CTCAGGCAGG GAGATTCAGC ATCACTCCTG TGGTTGATGA CACCTCAGCG TGCCTTTGAT GAGGTGTGTC CAACCTCGGT GAGTCCGTCC CTCTAAGTCG TAGTGAGGAC           E ---------------------    A  P  S   Y  T  L CGGCGCCTTC ATACACACTA GCCGCGGAAG TATGTGTGAT                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  L  G  E   Y  G  E   V  T  V   D  C  E  P   R  S  G   I  D  T   N  A  Y  Y   V  M  T 1501 AAGCTTGGAG AATATGGAGA GGTGACAGTG GACTGTGAAC CACGGTCAGG GATTGACACC AATGCATACT ACGTGATGAC TTCGAACCTC TTATACCTCT CCACTGTCAC CTGACACTTG GTGCCAGTCC CTAACTGTGG TTACGTATGA TGCACTACTG           E ---------------------   V  G  T   K  T  F  L • TGTTGGAACA AAGACGTTCT ACAACCTTGT TTCTGCAAGA                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  V  H  R   E  W  F   M  D  L  N   L  P  W   S  S  A   G  S  T  V   W  R  N   R  E  T 1601 TGGTCCATCG TGAGTGGTTC ATGGACCTCA ACCTCCCTTG GAGCAGTGCT GGAAGTACTG TGTGGAGGAA CAGAGAGACG ACCAGGTAGC ACTCACCAAG TACCTGGAGT TGGAGGGAAC CTCGTCACGA CCTTCATGAC ACACCTCCTT GTCTCTCTGC           E ---------------------  L  M  E  F   E  E  P • TTAATGGAGT TTGAGGAACC AATTACCTCA AACTCCTTGG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • H  A  T   K  Q  S  V   I  A  L   G  S  Q   E  G  A  L   H  Q  A   L  A  G   A  I  P  V 1701 ACACGCCACG AAGCAGTCTG TGATAGCATT GGGCTCACAA GAGGGAGCTC TGCATCAAGC TTTGGCTGGA GCCATTCCTG TGTGCGGTGC TTCGTCAGAC ACTATCGTAA CCCGAGTGTT CTCCCTCGAG ACGTAGTTCG AAACCGACCT CGGTAAGGAC           E ---------------------    E  F  S   S  N  T TGGAATTTTC AAGCAACACT ACCTTAAAAG TTCGTTGTGA                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  V  K  L  T   S  G  H   L  K  C   R  V  K  M   E  K  L   Q  L  K   G  T  T  Y   G  V  C 1801 GTCAAGTTGA CGTCGGGTCA TTTGAAGTGT AGAGTGAAGA TGGAAAAATT GCAGTTGAAG GGAACAACCT ATGGCGTCTG CAGTTCAACT GCAGCCCAGT AAACTTCACA TCTCACTTCT ACCTTTTTAA CGTCAACTTC CCTTGTTGGA TACCGCAGAC           E ---------------------   S  K  A   F  K  F  L • TTCAAAGGCT TTCAAGTTTC AAGTTTCCGA AAGTTCAAAG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  G  T  P   A  D  T   G  H  G  T   V  V  L   E  L  Q   Y  T  G  T   D  G  P   C  K  V 1901 TTGGGACTCC CGCAGACACA GGTCACGGCA CTGTGGTGTT GGAATTGCAG TACACTGGCA CGGATGGACC TTGCAAAGTT AACCCTGAGG GCGTCTGTGT CCAGTGCCGT GACACCACAA CCTTAACGTC ATGTGACCGT GCCTACCTGG AACGTTTCAA           E ---------------------  P  I  S  S   V  A  S • CCTATCTCGT CAGTGGCTTC GGATAGAGCA GTCACCGAAG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  N  D   L  T  P  V   G  R  L   V  T  V   N  P  F  V   S  V  A   T  A  N   A  K  V  L 2001 ATTGAACGAC CTAACGCCAG TGGGCAGATT GGTCACTGTC AACCCTTTTG TTTCAGTGGC CACGGCCAAC GCTAAGGTCC TAACTTGCTG GATTGCGGTC ACCCGTCTAA CCAGTGACAG TTGGGAAAAC AAAGTCACCG GTGCCGGTTG CGATTCCAGG           E ---------------------    I  E  L   E  P  P TGATTGAATT GGAACCACCC ACTAACTTAA CCTTGGTGGG                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  F  G  D  S   Y  I  V   V  G  R   G  E  Q  Q   I  N  H   H  W  H   K  S  G  S   S  I  G 2101 TTTGGAGACT CATACATAGT GGTGGGCAGA GGAGAACAAC AGATCAATCA CCACTGGCAC AAGTCTGGAA GCAGCATTGG AAACCTCTGA GTATGTATCA CCACCCGTCT CCTCTTGTTG TCTAGTTAGT GGTGACCGTG TTCAGACCTT CGTCGTAACC           E ---------------------   K  A  F   T  T  T  L • CAAAGCCTTT ACAACCACCC GTTTCGGAAA TGTTGGTGGG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  G  A   Q  R  L   A  A  L  G   D  T  A   W  D  F   G  S  V  G   G  V  F   T  S  V 2201 TCAAAGGAGC GCAGAGACTA GCCGCTCTAG GAGACACAGC TTGGGACTTT GGATCAGTTG GAGGGGTGTT CACCTCAGTT AGTTTCCTCG CGTCTCTGAT CGGCGAGATC CTCTGTGTCG AACCCTGAAA CCTAGTCAAC CTCCCCACAA GTGGAGTCAA           E ---------------------  G  K  A  V   H  Q  V • GGGAAGGCTG TCCATCAAGT CCCTTCCGAC AGGTAGTTCA                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • F  G  G   A  F  R  S   L  F  G   G  M  S   W  I  T  Q   G  L  L   G  A  L   L  L  W  M 2301 GTTCGGAGGA GCATTCCGCT CACTGTTCGG AGGCATGTCC TGGATAACGC AAGGATTGCT GGGGGCTCTC CTGTTGTGGA CAAGCCTCCT CGTAAGGCGA GTGACAAGCC TCCGTACAGG ACCTATTGCG TTCCTAACGA CCCCCGAGAG GACAACACCT           E ---------------------    G  I  N   A  R  D TGGGCATCAA TGCTCGTGAC ACCCGTAGTT ACGAGCACTG                                                                             deleted NS1                                                                            -------------                                   E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  R  S  I  A   L  T  F   L  A  V   G  G  V  L   L  F  L   S  V  N  V  H  A  D   T  G  I 2401 AGGTCCATAG CTCTCACGTT TCTCGCAGTT GGAGGAGTTC TGCTCTTCCT CTCCGTGAAC GTGCACGCTG ACACTGGGAT TCCAGGTATC GAGAGTGCAA AGAGCGTCAA CCTCCTCAAG ACGAGAAGGA GAGGCACTTG CACGTGCGAC TGTGACCCTA     deleted NS1 ---------------------   H  R  G   P  A  T  R • CCACCGTGGA CCTGCCACTC GGTGGCACCT GGACGGTGAG                                             deleted NS1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  T  T   E  S  G   K  L  I  T   D  W  C   C  R  S   C  T  L  P   P  L  R   Y  Q  T 2501 GCACCACCAC AGAGAGCGGA AAGTTGATAA CAGATTGGTG CTGCAGGAGC TGCACCTTAC CACCACTGCG CTACCAAACT CGTGGTGGTG TCTCTCGCCT TTCAACTATT GTCTAACCAC GACGTCCTCG ACGTGGAATG GTGGTGACGC GATGGTTTGA     deleted NS1 ---------------------  D  S   G  C   W  Y  G • GACAGCGGCT GTTGGTATGG CTGTCGCCGA CAACCATACC                          deleted NS1 -------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                             NS2A                                                                    -------------------- • M  E  I   R  P  Q  R   H  D  E   K  T  L   V  Q  S  Q   V  N  A   Y  N  A   D  M  I  D 2601 TATGGAGATC AGACCACAGA GACATGATGA AAAGACCCTC GTGCAGTCAC AAGTGAATGC TTATAATGCT GATATGATTG ATACCTCTAG TCTGGTGTCT CTGTACTACT TTTCTGGGAG CACGTCAGTG TTCACTTACG AATATTACGA CTATACTAAC       NS2A ---------------------    P  F  Q   L  G  L ACCCTTTTCA GTTGGGCCTT TGGGAAAAGT CAACCCGGAA

SEQUENCE APPENDIX 5 PIV-WNV(ΔprME)/RSV-F                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA               C protein                 ----       5′ UTR -----------------                   M  S • TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  Y   L  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCTA TTTGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGAT AAACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA      C protein ---------------------  G  L  K  R   A  M  L • GGACTTAAGA GGGCTATGTT CCTGAATTCT CCCGATACAA                                              C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  L  I   D  G  K  G   P  I  R   F  V  L   A  L  L  A   F  F  R   F  T  A   I  A  P  T 201 GAGCCTGATC GACGGCAAGG GGCCAATACG ATTTGTGTTG GCTCTCTTGG CGTTCTTCAG GTTCACAGCA ATTGCTCCGA CTCGGACTAG CTGCCGTTCC CCGGTTATGC TAAACACAAC CGAGAGAACC GCAAGAAGTC CAAGTGTCGT TAACGAGGCT      C protein ---------------------    R  A  V   L  D  R CCCGAGCAGT GCTGGATCGA GGGCTCGTCA CGACCTAGCT                                            C protein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  W  R  G  V   N  K  Q   T  A  M   K  H  L  L   S  F  K   K  E  L   G  T  L  T   S  A  I 301 TGGAGAGGTG TGAACAAACA AACAGCGATG AAACACCTTC TGAGTTTCAA GAAGGAACTA GGGACCTTGA CCAGTGCTAT ACCTCTCCAC ACTTGTTTGT TTGTCGCTAC TTTGTGGAAG ACTCAAAGTT CTTCCTTGAT CCCTGGAACT GGTCACGATA                  NS3 cleavage                  ----      C protein -----------------   N  R  R   S  S  K  Q • CAATCGGCGG AGCTCAAAGC GTTAGCCGCC TCGAGTTTCG                                           F signal             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NS3 cleavage ------------ •  K  K  R   G  G  E   L  L  I  L   K  A  N   A  I  T   T  I  L  T   A  V  T   F  C  F 401 AAAAGAAGCG AGGGGGCGAG TTGCTAATCC TCAAAGCAAA TGCAATTACC ACAATCCTCA CTGCAGTCAC ATTTTGTTTT TTTTCTTCGC TCCCCCGCTC AACGATTAGG AGTTTCGTTT ACGTTAATGG TGTTAGGAGT GACGTCAGTG TAAAACAAAA            F1 ---------------------  A  S  G  Q   N  I  T • GCTTCTGGTC AAAACATCAC CGAAGACCAG TTTTGTAGTG                                                  F1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • E  E  F   Y  Q  S  T   C  S  A   V  S  K   G  Y  L  S   A  L  R   T  G  W   Y  T  S  V 501 TGAAGAATTT TATCAATCAA CATGCAGTGC AGTTAGCAAA GGCTATCTTA GTGCTCTGAG AACTGGTTGG TATACCAGTG ACTTCTTAAA ATAGTTAGTT GTACGTCACG TCAATCGTTT CCGATAGAAT CACGAGACTC TTGACCAACC ATATGGTCAC           F1 ---------------------    I  T  I   E  L  S TTATAACTAT AGAATTAAGT AATATTGATA TCTTAATTCA                                                  F1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  N  I  K  E   N  K  C   N  G  T   D  A  K  V   K  L  I   K  Q  E   L  D  K  Y   K  N  A 601 AATATCAAGG AAAATAAGTG TAATGGAACA GATGCTAAGG TAAAATTGAT AAAACAAGAA TTAGATAAAT ATAAAAATGC TTATAGTTCC TTTTATTCAC ATTACCTTGT CTACGATTCC ATTTTAACTA TTTTGTTCTT AATCTATTTA TATTTTTACG           F1 ---------------------   V  T  E   L  Q  L  L • TGTAACAGAA TTGCAGTTGC ACATTGTCTT AACGTCAACG                                                  F1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  M  Q  S   T  P  P   T  N  N  R   A  R  R   E  L  P   R  F  M  N   Y  T  L   N  N  A 701 TCATGCAAAG CACACCACCA ACAAACAATC GAGCCAGAAG AGAACTACCA AGGTTTATGA ATTATACACT CAACAATGCC AGTACGTTTC GTGTGGTGGT TGTTTGTTAG CTCGGTCTTC TCTTGATGGT TCCAAATACT TAATATGTGA GTTGTTACGG           F1 ---------------------  K  K  T  N   V  T  L • AAAAAAACCA ATGTAACATT TTTTTTTGGT TACATTGTAA           F1 ------------------------                                                               F2                         ---------------------------------------------------------------- • S  K  K   R  K  R  R   F  L  G   F  L  L   G  V  G  S   A  I  A   S  G  V   A  V  S  K 801 AAGCAAGAAA AGGAAAAGAA GATTTCTTGG TTTTTTGTTA GGTGTTGGAT CTGCAATCGC CAGTGGCGTT GCTGTATCTA TTCGTTCTTT TCCTTTTCTT CTAAAGAACC AAAAAACAAT CCACAACCTA GACGTTAGCG GTCACCGCAA CGACATAGAT           F2 ---------------------    V  L  H   L  E  G AGGTCCTGCA CCTAGAAGGG TCCAGGACGT GGATCTTCCC                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  V  N  K   I  K  S   A  L  L   S  T  N  K   A  V  V   S  L  S   N  G  V  S   V  L  T 901 GAAGTGAACA AGATCAAAAG TGCTCTACTA TCCACAAACA AGGCTGTAGT CAGCTTATCA AATGGAGTTA GTGTCTTAAC CTTCACTTGT TCTAGTTTTC ACGAGATGAT AGGTGTTTGT TCCGACATCA GTCGAATAGT TTACCTCAAT CACAGAATTG           F2 ---------------------   S  K  V   L  D  L  K • CAGCAAAGTG TTAGACCTCA GTCGTTTCAC AATCTGGAGT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  N  Y  I   D  K  Q   L  L  P  I   V  N  K   Q  S  C   S  I  S  N   I  E  T  V  I  E 1001 AAAACTATAT AGATAAACAA TTGTTACCTA TTGTGAACAA GCAAAGCTGC AGCATATCAA ATATAGAAAC TGTGATAGAG TTTTGATATA TCTATTTGTT AACAATGGAT AACACTTGTT CGTTTCGACG TCGTATAGTT TATATCTTTG ACACTATCTC           F2 ---------------------  F  Q  Q  K   N  N  R • TTCCAACAAA AGAACAACAG AAGGTTGTTT TCTTGTTGTC                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • L  L  E   I  T  R  E   F  S  V   N  A  G   V  T  T  P   V  S  T   Y  M  L   T  N  S  E 1101 ACTACTAGAG ATTACCAGGG AATTTAGTGT TAATGCAGGT GTAACTACAC CTGTAAGCAC TTACATGTTA ACTAATAGTG TGATGATCTC TAATGGTCCC TTAAATCACA ATTACGTCCA CATTGATGTG GACATTCGTG AATGTACAAT TGATTATCAC           F2 ---------------------    L  L  S   L  I  N AATTATTGTC ATTAATCAAT TTAATAACAG TAATTAGTTA                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  M  P  I   T  N  D   Q  K  K   L  M  S  N   N  V  Q   I  V  R   Q  Q  S  Y   S  I  M 1201 GATATGCCTA TAACAAATGA TCAGAAAAAG TTAATGTCCA ACAATGTTCA AATAGTTAGA CAGCAAAGTT ACTCTATCAT CTATACGGAT ATTGTTTACT AGTCTTTTTC AATTACAGGT TGTTACAAGT TTATCAATCT GTCGTTTCAA TGAGATAGTA           F2 ---------------------   S  I  I   K  E  E  V • GTCCATAATA AAAGAGGAAG CAGGTATTAT TTTCTCCTTC                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  L  A  Y   V  V  Q   L  P  L  Y   G  V  I   D  T  P   C  W  K  L   H  T  S   P  L  C 1301 TCTTAGCATA TGTAGTACAA TTACCACTAT ATGGTGTTAT AGATACACCC TGTTGGAAAC TACACACATC CCCTCTATGT AGAATCGTAT ACATCATGTT AATGGTGATA TACCACAATA TCTATGTGGG ACAACCTTTG ATGTGTGTAG GGGAGATACA           F2 ---------------------  T  T  N  T   K  E  G • ACAACCAACA CAAAAGAAGG TGTTGGTTGT GTTTTCTTCC                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  N  I   C  L  T  R   T  D  R   G  W  Y   C  D  N  A   G  S  V   S  F  F   P  Q  A  E 1401 GTCCAACATC TGTTTAACAA GAACTGACAG AGGATGGTAC TGTGACAATG CAGGATCAGT ATCTTTCTTC CCACAAGCTG CAGGTTGTAG ACAAATTGTT CTTGACTGTC TCCTACCATG ACACTGTTAC GTCCTAGTCA TAGAAAGAAG GGTGTTCGAC           F2 ---------------------    T  C  K   V  Q  S AAACATGTAA AGTTCAATCA TTTGTACATT TCAAGTTAGT                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  N  R  V  F   C  D  T   M  N  S   L  T  L  P   S  E  I   N  L  C   N  V  D  I   F  N  P 1501 AATCGAGTAT TTTGTGACAC AATGAACAGT TTAACATTAC CAAGTGAAAT AAATCTCTGC AATGTTGACA TATTCAACCC TTAGCTCATA AAACACTGTG TTACTTGTCA AATTGTAATG GTTCACTTTA TTTAGAGACG TTACAACTGT ATAAGTTGGG           F2 ---------------------   K  Y  D   C  K  I  M • CAAATATGAT TGTAAAATTA GTTTATACTA ACATTTTAAT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  S  K   T  D  V   S  S  S  V   I  T  S   L  G  A   I  V  S  C   Y  G  K   T  K  C 1601 TGACTTCAAA AACAGATGTA AGCAGCTCCG TTATCACATC TCTAGGAGCC ATTGTGTCAT GCTATGGCAA AACTAAATGT ACTGAAGTTT TTGTCTACAT TCGTCGAGGC AATAGTGTAG AGATCCTCGG TAACACAGTA CGATACCGTT TTGATTTACA           F2 ---------------------  T  A  S  N   K  N  R • ACAGCATCCA ATAAAAATCG TGTCGTAGGT TATTTTTAGC                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • G  I  I   K  T  F  S   N  G  C   D  Y  V   S  N  K  G   M  D  T   V  S  V   G  N  T  L 1701 TGGAATCATA AAGACATTTT CTAACGGGTG CGATTATGTA TCAAATAAAG GGATGGACAC TGTGTCTGTA GGTAACACAT ACCTTAGTAT TTCTGTAAAA GATTGCCCAC GCTAATACAT AGTTTATTTC CCTACCTGTG ACACAGACAT CCATTGTGTA           F2 ---------------------    Y  Y  V   N  K  Q TATATTATGT AAATAAGCAA ATATAATACA TTTATTCGTT                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  G  K  S   L  Y  V   K  G  E   P  I  I  N   F  Y  D   P  L  V   F  P  S  D   E  F  D 1801 GAAGGTAAAA GTCTCTATGT AAAAGGTGAA CCAATAATAA ATTTCTATGA CCCATTAGTA TTCCCCTCTG ATGAATTTGA CTTCCATTTT CAGAGATACA TTTTCCACTT GGTTATTATT TAAAGATACT GGGTAATCAT AAGGGGAGAC TACTTAAACT           F2 ---------------------   A  S  I   S  Q  V  N • TGCATCAATA TCTCAAGTCA ACGTAGTTAT AGAGTTCAGT                                           F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  K  I   N  Q  S   L  A  F  I   R  K  S   D  E  L   L  H  N  V   N  A  G   K  S  T 1901 ACGAGAAGAT TAACCAGAGC CTAGCATTTA TTCGTAAATC CGATGAATTA TTACATAATG TAAATGCTGG TAAATCCACC TGCTCTTCTA ATTGGTCTCG GATCGTAAAT AAGCATTTAG GCTACTTAAT AATGTATTAC ATTTACGACC ATTTAGGTGG   F2 ------          TM Domain       ---------------  T  N  I  M   I  T  T • ACAAATATCA TGATAACTAC TGTTTATAGT ACTATTGATG                        TM Domain ------------------------------------------------------------                                                                   Cytoplasmic Tail                                                             ---------------------------- • I  I  I   V  I  I  V   I  L  L   S  L  I   A  V  G  L   L  L  Y   C  K  A   R  S  T  P 2001 TATAATTATA GTGATTATAG TAATATTGTT ATCATTAATT GCTGTTGGAC TGCTCTTATA CTGTAAGGCC AGAAGCACAC ATATTAATAT CACTAATATC ATTATAACAA TAGTAATTAA CGACAACCTG ACGAGAATAT GACATTCCGG TCTTCGTGTG    Cytoplasmic Tail ---------------------    V  T  L   S  K  D CAGTCACACT AAGCAAAGAT GTCAGTGTGA TTCGTTTCTA                                                              FMDV 2A                                        ------------------------------------------------- domain of WNV E (split)           Cytoplasmic Tail ---------------------------------------  Q  L  S  G   I  N  N   I  A  F   S  N  N  F   D  L  L   K  L  A   G  D  V  E   S  N  P 2101 CAACTGAGTG GTATAAATAA TATTGCATTT AGTAACAATT TTGATCTGCT CAAACTTGCA GGCGATGTAG AATCAAATCC GTTGACTCAC CATATTTATT ATAACGTAAA TCATTGTTAA AACTAGACGA GTTTGAACGT CCGCTACATC TTAGTTTAGG FMDV 2A -------                  Transmembrane                  ----        pre E/NS1        signal        ----------   G  P  A   R  D  R  S • TGGACCCGCC CGGGACAGGT ACCTGGGCGG GCCCTGTCCA                                                                              NS1                                                                        -----------------               Transmembrane domain of WNV E (split) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- •  I  A  L   T  F  L   A  V  G  G   V  L  L   F  L  S   V  N  V  H   A  D  T   G  C  A 2201 CCATAGCTCT CACGTTTCTC GCAGTTGGAG GAGTTCTGCT CTTCCTCTCC GTGAACGTGC ACGCTGACAC TGGGTGTGCC GGTATCGAGA GTGCAAAGAG CGTCAACCTC CTCAAGACGA GAAGGAGAGG CACTTGCACG TGCGACTGTG ACCCACACGG        NS1 -------------------  I  D  I  S   R  Q ATAGACATCA GCCGGCAA TATCTGTAGT CGGCCGTT PIV-WNV(ΔCprME)/RSV-F                                              5′ UTR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 AGTAGTTCGC CTGTGTGAGC TGACAAACTT AGTAGTGTTT GTGAGGATTA ACAACAATTA ACACAGTGCG AGCTGTTTCT TCATCAAGCG GACACACTCG ACTGTTTGAA TCATCACAAA CACTCCTAAT TGTTGTTAAT TGTGTCACGC TCGACAAAGA        deleted C protein                  ----       5′ UTR -----------------                   M  S • TAGCACGAAG ATCTCGATGT ATCGTGCTTC TAGAGCTACA                                   deleted C protein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  K  P   G  G  P   G  K  S  R   A  V  N   M  L  K   R  G  M  P   R  V  L   S  L  I 101 CTAAGAAACC AGGAGGGCCC GGCAAGAGCC GGGCTGTCAA TATGCTAAAA CGCGGAATGC CCCGCGTGTT GTCCTTGATT GATTCTTTGG TCCTCCCGGG CCGTTCTCGG CCCGACAGTT ATACGATTTT GCGCCTTACG GGGCGCACAA CAGGAACTAA deleted C protein ------        NS3 cleavage       ---------------   G  L  K  Q   K  K  R • GGACTTAAGC AAAAGAAGCG CCTGAATTCG TTTTCTTCGC                                F signal  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NS3 cleavage                                                                     F1 -                                                                            ----------- • G  G  E   L  L  I  L   K  A  N   A  I  T   T  I  L  T   A  V  T   F  C  F   A  S  G  Q 201 AGGGGGCGAG TTGCTAATCC TCAAAGCAAA TGCAATTACC ACAATCCTCA CTGCAGTCAC ATTTTGTTTT GCTTCTGGTC TCCCCCGCTC AACGATTAGG AGTTTCGTTT ACGTTAATGG TGTTAGGAGT GACGTCAGTG TAAAACAAAA CGAAGACCAG           F1 ----------------------    N  I  T   E  E  F AAAACATCAC TGAAGAATTT TTTTGTAGTG ACTTCTTAAA                                                  F1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Y  Q  S  T   C  S  A   V  S  K   G  Y  L  S   A  L  R   T  G  W   Y  T  S  V   I  T  I 301 TATCAATCAA CATGCAGTGC AGTTAGCAAA GGCTATCTTA GTGCTCTGAG AACTGGTTGG TATACCAGTG TTATAACTAT ATAGTTAGTT GTACGTCACG TCAATCGTTT CCGATAGAAT CACGAGACTC TTGACCAACC ATATGGTCAC AATATTGATA           F1 ---------------------   E  L  S   N  I  K  E • AGAATTAAGT AATATCAAGG TCTTAATTCA TTATAGTTCC                                                  F1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  N  K  C   N  G  T   D  A  K  V   K  L  I   K  Q  E   L  D  K  Y   K  N  A   V  T  E 401 AAAATAAGTG TAATGGAACA GATGCTAAGG TAAAATTGAT AAAACAAGAA TTAGATAAAT ATAAAAATGC TGTAACAGAA TTTTATTCAC ATTACCTTGT CTACGATTCC ATTTTAACTA TTTTGTTCTT AATCTATTTA TATTTTTACG ACATTGTCTT           F1 ---------------------  L  Q  L  L   M  Q  S • TTGCAGTTGC TCATGCAAAG AACGTCAACG AGTACGTTTC                                                  F1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  P  P   T  N  N  R   A  R  R   E  L  P   R  F  M  N   Y  T  L   N  N  A   K  K  T  N 501 CACACCACCA ACAAACAATC GAGCCAGAAG AGAACTACCA AGGTTTATGA ATTATACACT CAACAATGCC AAAAAAACCA GTGTGGTGGT TGTTTGTTAG CTCGGTCTTC TCTTGATGGT TCCAAATACT TAATATGTGA GTTGTTACGG TTTTTTTGGT           F1 ---------------------    V  T  L   S  K  K ATGTAACATT AAGCAAGAAA TACATTGTAA TTCGTTCTTT      F1 -------------                                                         F2              ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  R  K  R  R   F  L  G   F  L  L   G  V  G  S   A  I  A   S  G  V   A  V  S  K   V  L  H 601 AGGAAAAGAA GATTTCTTGG TTTTTTGTTA GGTGTTGGAT CTGCAATCGC CAGTGGCGTT GCTGTATCTA AGGTCCTGCA TCCTTTTCTT CTAAAGAACC AAAAAACAAT CCACAACCTA GACGTTAGCG GTCACCGCAA CGACATAGAT TCCAGGACGT           F2 ---------------------   L  E  G   E  V  N  K • CCTAGAAGGG GAAGTGAACA GGATCTTCCC CTTCACTTGT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  I  K  S   A  L  L   S  T  N  K   A  V  V   S  L  S   N  G  V  S   V  L  T   S  K  V 701 AGATCAAAAG TGCTCTACTA TCCACAAACA AGGCTGTAGT CAGCTTATCA AATGGAGTTA GTGTCTTAAC CAGCAAAGTG TCTAGTTTTC ACGAGATGAT AGGTGTTTGT TCCGACATCA GTCGAATAGT TTACCTCAAT CACAGAATTG GTCGTTTCAC           F2 ---------------------  L  D  L  K   N  Y   I • TTAGACCTCA AAAACTATAT AATCTGGAGT TTTTGATATA                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  K  Q   L  L  P  I   V  N  K   Q  S  C   S  I  S  N   I  E  T   V  I  E   F  Q  Q  K 801 AGATAAACAA TTGTTACCTA TTGTGAACAA GCAAAGCTGC AGCATATCAA ATATAGAAAC TGTGATAGAG TTCCAACAAA TCTATTTGTT AACAATGGAT AACACTTGTT CGTTTCGACG TCGTATAGTT TATATCTTTG ACACTATCTC AAGGTTGTTT           F2 ---------------------    N  N  R   L  L  E AGAACAACAG ACTACTAGAG TCTTGTTGTC TGATGATCTC                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  T  R  E   F  S  V   N  A  G   V  T  T  P   V  S  T   Y  M  L   T  N  S  E   L  L  S 901 ATTACCAGGG AATTTAGTGT TAATGCAGGT GTAACTACAC CTGTAAGCAC TTACATGTTA ACTAATAGTG AATTATTGTC TAATGGTCCC TTAAATCACA ATTACGTCCA CATTGATGTG GACATTCGTG AATGTACAAT TGATTATCAC TTAATAACAG           F2 ---------------------   L  I  N   D  M  P  I • ATTAATCAAT GATATGCCTA TAATTAGTTA CTATACGGAT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  N  D   Q  K  K   L  M  S  N   N  V  Q   I  V  R   Q  Q  S  Y   S  I  M   S  I  I 1001 TAACAAATGA TCAGAAAAAG TTAATGTCCA ACAATGTTCA AATAGTTAGA CAGCAAAGTT ACTCTATCAT GTCCATAATA ATTGTTTACT AGTCTTTTTC AATTACAGGT TGTTACAAGT TTATCAATCT GTCGTTTCAA TGAGATAGTA CAGGTATTAT           F2 ---------------------  K  E  E  V   L  A  Y • AAAGAGGAAG TCTTAGCATA TTTCTCCTTC AGAATCGTAT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • V  V  Q   L  P  L  Y   G  V  I   D  T  P   C  W  K  L   H  T  S   P  L  C   T  T  N  T           F2 --------------------- K  E  G   S  N  I 1101 TGTAGTACAA TTACCACTAT ATGGTGTTAT AGATACACCC TGTTGGAAAC TACACACATC CCCTCTATGT ACAACCAACA ACATCATGTT AATGGTGATA TACCACAATA TCTATGTGGG ACAACCTTTG ATGTGTGTAG GGGAGATACA TGTTGGTTGT CAAAAGAAGG GTCCAACATC GTTTTCTTCC CAGGTTGTAG                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  C  L  T  R   T  D  R   G  W  Y   C  D  N  A   G  S  V   S  F  F   P  Q  A  E   T  C  K 1201 TGTTTAACAA GAACTGACAG AGGATGGTAC TGTGACAATG CAGGATCAGT ATCTTTCTTC CCACAAGCTG AAACATGTAA ACAAATTGTT CTTGACTGTC TCCTACCATG ACACTGTTAC GTCCTAGTCA TAGAAAGAAG GGTGTTCGAC TTTGTACATT           F2 ---------------------   V  Q  S   N  R  V  F • AGTTCAATCA AATCGAGTAT TCAAGTTAGT TTAGCTCATA                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  C  D  T   M  N  S   L  T  L  P   S  E  I   N  L  C   N  V  D  I   F  N  P   K  Y  D 1301 TTTGTGACAC AATGAACAGT TTAACATTAC CAAGTGAAAT AAATCTCTGC AATGTTGACA TATTCAACCC CAAATATGAT AAACACTGTG TTACTTGTCA AATTGTAATG GTTCACTTTA TTTAGAGACG TTACAACTGT ATAAGTTGGG GTTTATACTA           F2 ---------------------  C  K  I  M   T  S  K • TGTAAAATTA TGACTTCAAA ACATTTTAAT ACTGAAGTTT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  D  V   S  S  S  V   I  T  S   L  G  A   I  V  S  C   Y  G  K   T  K  C   T  A  S  N 1401 AACAGATGTA AGCAGCTCCG TTATCACATC TCTAGGAGCC ATTGTGTCAT GCTATGGCAA AACTAAATGT ACAGCATCCA TTGTCTACAT TCGTCGAGGC AATAGTGTAG AGATCCTCGG TAACACAGTA CGATACCGTT TTGATTTACA TGTCGTAGGT           F2 ---------------------    K  N  R   G  I  I ATAAAAATCG TGGAATCATA TATTTTTAGC ACCTTAGTAT                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  T  F  S   N  G  C   D  Y  V   S  N  K  G   M  D  T   V  S  V   G  N  T  L   Y  Y  V 1501 AAGACATTTT CTAACGGGTG CGATTATGTA TCAAATAAAG GGATGGACAC TGTGTCTGTA GGTAACACAT TATATTATGT TTCTGTAAAA GATTGCCCAC GCTAATACAT AGTTTATTTC CCTACCTGTG ACACAGACAT CCATTGTGTA ATATAATACA           F2 ---------------------   N  K  Q   E  G  K  S • AAATAAGCAA GAAGGTAAAA TTTATTCGTT CTTCCATTTT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  L  Y  V   K  G  E   P  I  I  N   F  Y  D   P  L  V   F  P  S  D   E  F  D   A  S  I 1601 GTCTCTATGT AAAAGGTGAA CCAATAATAA ATTTCTATGA CCCATTAGTA TTCCCCTCTG ATGAATTTGA TGCATCAATA CAGAGATACA TTTTCCACTT GGTTATTATT TAAAGATACT GGGTAATCAT AAGGGGAGAC TACTTAAACT ACGTAGTTAT           F2 ---------------------  S  Q  V  N   E  K  I• TCTCAAGTCA ACGAGAAGAT AGAGTTCAGT TGCTCTTCTA                                      F2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                    TM Domain                                                                                    ----- • N  Q  S   L  A  F  I   R  K  S   D  E  L   L  H  N  V   N  A  G   K  S  T   T  N  I  M 1701 TAACCAGAGC CTAGCATTTA TTCGTAAATC CGATGAATTA TTACATAATG TAAATGCTGG TAAATCCACC ACAAATATCA ATTGGTCTCG GATCGTAAAT AAGCATTTAG GCTACTTAAT AATGTATTAC ATTTACGACC ATTTAGGTGG TGTTTATAGT       TM Domain ---------------------    I  T  T   I  I  I TGATAACTAC TATAATTATA ACTATTGATG ATATTAATAT                  TM Domain -------------------------------------------------                                                             Cytoplasmic Tail                                                  ---------------------------------------  V  I  I  V   I  L  L   S  L  I   A  V  G  L   L  L  Y   C  K  A   R  S  T  P   V  T  L 1801 GTGATTATAG TAATATTGTT ATCATTAATT GCTGTTGGAC TGCTCTTATA CTGTAAGGCC AGAAGCACAC CAGTCACACT CACTAATATC ATTATAACAA TAGTAATTAA CGACAACCTG ACGAGAATAT GACATTCCGG TCTTCGTGTG GTCAGTGTGA   Cytoplasmic Tail ---------------------   S  K  D   Q  L  S  G • AAGCAAAGAT CAACTGAGTG TTCGTTTCTA GTTGACTCAC                                                   FMDV 2A                             --------------------------------------------------------      Cytoplasmic Tail                                                          pre E/NS1 signal ----------------------------                                                        ---- •  I  N  N   I  A  F   S  N  N  F   D  L  L   K  L  A   G  D  V  E   S  N  P   G  P  A 1901 GTATAAATAA TATTGCATTT AGTAACAATT TTGATCTGCT CAAACTTGCA GGCGATGTAG AATCAAATCC TGGACCCGCC CATATTTATT ATAACGTAAA TCATTGTTAA AACTAGACGA GTTTGAACGT CCGCTACATC TTAGTTTAGG ACCTGGGCGG membrane domain of WNV E (split)         --------------- pre E/NS1 signal ------  R  D  R  S   I  A  L • CGGGACAGGT CCATAGCTCT GCCCTGTCCA GGTATCGAGA          Transmembrane domain of WNV E (split) ------------------------------------------------------------                                                                         NS1                                                             ---------------------------- • T  F  L   A  V  G  G   V  L  L   F  L  S   V  N  V  H   A  D  T   G  C  A   I  D  I  S 2001 CACGTTTCTC GCAGTTGGAG GAGTTCTGCT CTTCCTCTCC GTGAACGTGC ACGCTGACAC TGGGTGTGCC ATAGACATCA GTGCAAAGAG CGTCAACCTC CTCAAGACGA GAAGGAGAGG CACTTGCACG TGCGACTGTG ACCCACACGG TATCTGTAGT        NS1 -----------------   R  Q  E   L  R GCCGGCAAGA GCTGAGA CGGCCGTTCT CGACTCT PIV-WNV(ΔC)/RSV-F 1 GATCCTAATA CGACTCACTA TAGAGTAGTT CGCCTGTGTG AGCTGACAAA CTTAGTAGTG TTTGTGAGGA TTAACAACAA CTAGGATTAT GCTGAGTGAT ATCTCATCAA GCGGACACAC TCGACTGTTT GAATCATCAC AAACACTCCT AATTGTTGTT TTAACACAGT GCGAGCTGTT AATTGTGTCA CGCTCGACAA                                                       N-terminus of C                     --------------------------------------------------------------------                     M   S  K  K   P  G  G   P  G  K  S   R  A  V   N  M  L   K  R  G  M 101 TCTTAGCACG AAGATCTCGA TGTCTAAGAA ACCAGGAGGG CCCGGCAAGA GCCGGGCTGT CAATATGCTA AAACGCGGAA AGAATCGTGC TTCTAGAGCT ACAGATTCTT TGGTCCTCCC GGGCCGTTCT CGGCCCGACA GTTATACGAT TTTGCGCCTT    N-terminus of C ---------------------    P  R  V   L  S  L TGCCCCGCGT GTTGTCCTTG ACGGGGCGCA CAACAGGAAC N-terminus of C                                              F signal ---------                 --------------------------------------------------------------           NS3 cleavage           -----------------  I  G  L  K   Q  K  K   R  G  G   E  L  L  I   L  K  A   N  A  I   T  T  I  L   T  A  V 201 ATTGGACTTA AGCAAAAGAA GCGAGGGGGC GAGTTGCTAA TCCTCAAAGC AAATGCAATT ACCACAATCC TCACTGCAGT TAACCTGAAT TCGTTTTCTT CGCTCCCCCG CTCAACGATT AGGAGTTTCG TTTACGTTAA TGGTGTTAGG AGTGACGTCA    F signal --------------                 F1               -------   T  F  C   F  A  S  G • CACATTTTGT TTTGCTTCTG GTGTAAAACA AAACGAAGAC                                                  F1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  N  I   T  E  E   F  Y  Q  S   T  C  S   A  V  S   K  G  Y  L   S  A  L   R  T  G 301 GTCAAAACAT CACTGAAGAA TTTTATCAAT CAACATGCAG TGCAGTTAGC AAAGGCTATC TTAGTGCTCT GAGAACTGGT CAGTTTTGTA GTGACTTCTT AAAATAGTTA GTTGTACGTC ACGTCAATCG TTTCCGATAG AATCACGAGA CTCTTGACCA           F1 ---------------------  W  Y  T  S   V  I  T • TGGTATACCA GTGTTATAAC ACCATATGGT CACAATATTG                                                  F1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  I  E  L   S  N  I  K   E  N  K   C  N  G   T  D  A  K   V  K  L   I  K  Q   E  L  D  K 401 TATAGAATTA AGTAATATCA AGGAAAATAA GTGTAATGGA ACAGATGCTA AGGTAAAATT GATAAAACAA GAATTAGATA ATATCTTAAT TCATTATAGT TCCTTTTATT CACATTACCT TGTCTACGAT TCCATTTTAA CTATTTTGTT CTTAATCTAT           F1 ---------------------    Y  K  N   A  V  T AATATAAAAA TGCTGTAACA TTATATTTTT ACGACATTGT                                                  F1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  L  Q  L   L  M  Q   S  T  P   P  T  N  N   R  A  R   R  E  L   P  R  F  M   N  Y  T 501 GAATTGCAGT TGCTCATGCA AAGCACACCA CCAACAAACA ATCGAGCCAG AAGAGAACTA CCAAGGTTTA TGAATTATAC CTTAACGTCA ACGAGTACGT TTCGTGTGGT GGTTGTTTGT TAGCTCGGTC TTCTCTTGAT GGTTCCAAAT ACTTAATATG           F1 ---------------------   L  N  N   A  K  K  T • ACTCAACAAT GCCAAAAAAA TGAGTTGTTA CGGTTTTTTT                                                               F2                                       --------------------------------------------------                 F1 -------------------------------------- •  N  V  T   L  S  K   K  R  K  R   R  F  L   G  F  L   L  G  V  G   S  A  I   A  S  G 601 CCAATGTAAC ATTAAGCAAG AAAAGGAAAA GAAGATTTCT TGGTTTTTTG TTAGGTGTTG GATCTGCAAT CGCCAGTGGC GGTTACATTG TAATTCGTTC TTTTCCTTTT CTTCTAAAGA ACCAAAAAAC AATCCACAAC CTAGACGTTA GCGGTCACCG           F2 ---------------------  V  A  V  S   K  V  L • GTTGCTGTAT CTAAGGTCCT CAACGACATA GATTCCAGGA                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  H  L  E   G  E  V  N   K  I  K   S  A  L   L  S  T  N   K  A  V   V  S  L   S  N  G  V 701 GCACCTAGAA GGGGAAGTGA ACAAGATCAA AAGTGCTCTA CTATCCACAA ACAAGGCTGT AGTCAGCTTA TCAAATGGAG CGTGGATCTT CCCCTTCACT TGTTCTAGTT TTCACGAGAT GATAGGTGTT TGTTCCGACA TCAGTCGAAT AGTTTACCTC           F2 ---------------------    S  V  L   T  S  K TTAGTGTCTT AACCAGCAAA AATCACAGAA TTGGTCGTTT                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  V  L  D  L   K  N  Y   I  D  K   Q  L  L  P   I  V  N   K  Q  S   C  S  I  S   N  I  E 801 GTGTTAGACC TCAAAAACTA TATAGATAAA CAATTGTTAC CTATTGTGAA CAAGCAAAGC TGCAGCATAT CAAATATAGA CACAATCTGG AGTTTTTGAT ATATCTATTT GTTAACAATG GATAACACTT GTTCGTTTCG ACGTCGTATA GTTTATATCT           F2 ---------------------   T  V  I   E  F  Q  Q • AACTGTGATA GAGTTCCAAC TTGACACTAT CTCAAGGTTG                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  K  N  N   R  L  L   E  I  T  R   E  F  S   V  N  A   G  V  T  T   P  V  S   T  Y  M 901 AAAAGAACAA CAGACTACTA GAGATTACCA GGGAATTTAG TGTTAATGCA GGTGTAACTA CACCTGTAAG CACTTACATG TTTTCTTGTT GTCTGATGAT CTCTAATGGT CCCTTAAATC ACAATTACGT CCACATTGAT GTGGACATTC GTGAATGTAC           F2 ---------------------  L  T  N  S   E  L  L • TTAACTAATA GTGAATTATT AATTGATTAT CACTTAATAA                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  L  I   N  D  M  P   I  T  N   D  Q  K   K  L  M  S   N  N  V   Q  I  V   R  Q  Q  S 1001 GTCATTAATC AATGATATGC CTATAACAAA TGATCAGAAA AAGTTAATGT CCAACAATGT TCAAATAGTT AGACAGCAAA CAGTAATTAG TTACTATACG GATATTGTTT ACTAGTCTTT TTCAATTACA GGTTGTTACA AGTTTATCAA TCTGTCGTTT           F2 ---------------------   Y  S  I   M  S  I GTTACTCTAT CATGTCCATA CAATGAGATA GTACAGGTAT                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  K  E  E   V  L  A   Y  V  V   Q  L  P  L  Y  G  V   I  D  T   P  C  W  K   L  H  T 1101 ATAAAAGAGG AAGTCTTAGC ATATGTAGTA CAATTACCAC TATATGGTGT TATAGATACA CCCTGTTGGA AACTACACAC TATTTTCTCC TTCAGAATCG TATACATCAT GTTAATGGTG ATATACCACA ATATCTATGT GGGACAACCT TTGATGTGTG           F2 ---------------------   S  P  L   C  T  T  N • ATCCCCTCTA TGTACAACCA TAGGGGAGAT ACATGTTGGT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  K  E   G  S  N   I  C  L  T   R  T  D   R  G  W   Y  C  D  N   A  G  S   V  S  F 1201 ACACAAAAGA AGGGTCCAAC ATCTGTTTAA CAAGAACTGA CAGAGGATGG TACTGTGACA ATGCAGGATC AGTATCTTTC TGTGTTTTCT TCCCAGGTTG TAGACAAATT GTTCTTGACT GTCTCCTACC ATGACACTGT TACGTCCTAG TCATAGAAAG           F2 ---------------------  F  P  Q  A   E  T  C • TTCCCACAAG CTGAAACATG AAGGGTGTTC GACTTTGTAC                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • K  V  Q   S  N  R  V   F  C  D   T  M  N   S  L  T  L   P  S  E   I  N  L   C  N  V  D 1301 TAAAGTTCAA TCAAATCGAG TATTTTGTGA CACAATGAAC AGTTTAACAT TACCAAGTGA AATAAATCTC TGCAATGTTG ATTTCAAGTT AGTTTAGCTC ATAAAACACT GTGTTACTTG TCAAATTGTA ATGGTTCACT TTATTTAGAG ACGTTACAAC           F2 ---------------------   I  F  N   P  K  Y ACATATTCAA CCCCAAATAT TGTATAAGTT GGGGTTTATA                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  D  C  K  I   M  T  S   K  T  D   V  S  S  S   V  I  T   S  L  G   A  I  V  S   C  Y  G 1401 GATTGTAAAA TTATGACTTC AAAAACAGAT GTAAGCAGCT CCGTTATCAC ATCTCTAGGA GCCATTGTGT CATGCTATGG CTAACATTTT AATACTGAAG TTTTTGTCTA CATTCGTCGA GGCAATAGTG TAGAGATCCT CGGTAACACA GTACGATACC           F2 ---------------------   K  T  K   C  T  A  S • CAAAACTAAA TGTACAGCAT GTTTTGATTT ACATGTCGTA                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  N  K  N   R  G  I   I  K  T  F   S  N  G   C  D  Y   V  S  N  K   G  M  D   T  V  S 1501 CCAATAAAAA TCGTGGAATC ATAAAGACAT TTTCTAACGG GTGCGATTAT GTATCAAATA AAGGGATGGA CACTGTGTCT GGTTATTTTT AGCACCTTAG TATTTCTGTA AAAGATTGCC CACGCTAATA CATAGTTTAT TTCCCTACCT GTGACACAGA           F2 ---------------------  V  G  N  T   L  Y  Y • GTAGGTAACA CATTATATTA CATCCATTGT GTAATATAAT                                                  F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • V  N  K   Q  E  G  K   S  L  Y   V  K  G   E  P  I  I   N  F  Y   D  P  L   V  F  P  S 1601 TGTAAATAAG CAAGAAGGTA AAAGTCTCTA TGTAAAAGGT GAACCAATAA TAAATTTCTA TGACCCATTA GTATTCCCCT ACATTTATTC GTTCTTCCAT TTTCAGAGAT ACATTTTCCA CTTGGTTATT ATTTAAAGAT ACTGGGTAAT CATAAGGGGA           F2 ---------------------    D  E  F   D  A  S CTGATGAATT TGATGCATCA GACTACTTAA ACTACGTAGT                                                  F2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I  S  Q  V   N  E  K   I  N  Q   S  L  A  F   I  R  K   S  D  E   L  L  H  N   V  N  A 1701 ATATCTCAAG TCAACGAGAA GATTAACCAG AGCCTAGCAT TTATTCGTAA ATCCGATGAATTATTACATA ATGTAAATGC TATAGAGTTC AGTTGCTCTT CTAATTGGTC TCGGATCGTA AATAAGCATT TAGGCTACTT AATAATGTAT TACATTTACG         F2 --------------------                      TM Domain                      -   G  K  S   T  T  N  I • TGGTAAATCC ACCACAAATA ACCATTTAGG TGGTGTTTAT                              TM Domain --------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                          Cytoplasmic Tail                                                                           -------------- •  M  I  T   T  I  I   I  V  I  I   V  I  L   L  S  L   I  A  V  G   L  L  L   Y  C  K 1801 TCATGATAAC TACTATAATT ATAGTGATTA TAGTAATATT GTTATCATTA ATTGCTGTTG GACTGCTCTT ATACTGTAAG AGTACTATTG ATGATATTAA TATCACTAAT ATCATTATAA CAATAGTAAT TAACGACAAC CTGACGAGAA TATGACATTC    Cytoplasmic Tail ---------------------  A  R  S  T   P  V  T • GCCAGAAGCA CACCAGTCAC CGGTCTTCGT GTGGTCAGTG                                                                  FMDV 2A                                                      -----------------------------------                 Cytoplasmic Tail ----------------------------------------------------- • L  S  K   D  Q  L  S   G  I  N   N  I  A   F  S  N  N   F  D  L   L  K  L   A  G  D  V 1901 ACTAAGCAAA GATCAACTGA GTGGTATAAA TAATATTGCA TTTAGTAACA ATTTTGATCT GCTCAAACTT GCAGGCGATG TGATTCGTTT CTAGTTGACT CACCATATTT ATTATAACGT AAATCATTGT TAAAACTAGA CGAGTTTGAA CGTCCGCTAC       FMDV 2A ---------------------    E  S  N   P  G  P TAGAATCAAA TCCTGGACCC ATCTTAGTTT AGGACCTGGG                                                                        prM                                                            -----------------------------                      C/prM signal -----------------------------------------------------------  G  G  K  T   G  I  A   V  M  I   G  L  I  A   C  V  G   A  V  T   L  S  N  F   Q  G  K 2001 GGAGGAAAGA CCGGTATTGC AGTCATGATT GGCCTGATCG CCTGCGTAGG AGCAGTTACC CTCTCTAACT TCCAAGGGAA CCTCCTTTCT GGCCATAACG TCAGTACTAA CCGGACTAGC GGACGCATCC TCGTCAATGG GAGAGATTGA AGGTTCCCTT           prM ---------------------   V  M  M   T  V  N  A • GGTGATGATG ACGGTAAATG CCACTACTAC TGCCATTTAC                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  D  V   T  D  V   I  T  I  P   T  A  A   G  K  N   L  C  I  V   R  A  M   D  V  G 2101 CTACTGACGT CACAGATGTC ATCACGATTC CAACAGCTGC TGGAAAGAAC CTATGCATTG TCAGAGCAAT GGATGTGGGA GATGACTGCA GTGTCTACAG TAGTGCTAAG GTTGTCGACG ACCTTTCTTG GATACGTAAC AGTCTCGTTA CCTACACCCT           prM ---------------------  Y  M  C  D   D  T  I • TACATGTGCG ATGATACTAT ATGTACACGC TACTATGATA                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • T  Y  E   C  P  V  L   S  A  G   N  D  P   E  D  I  D   C  W  C   T  K  S   A  V  Y  V 2201 CACTTATGAA TGCCCAGTGC TGTCGGCTGG TAATGATCCA GAAGACATCG ACTGTTGGTG CACAAAGTCA GCAGTCTACG GTGAATACTT ACGGGTCACG ACAGCCGACC ATTACTAGGT CTTCTGTAGC TGACAACCAC GTGTTTCAGT CGTCAGATGC           prM ---------------------    R  Y  G   R  C  T TCAGGTATGG AAGATGCACC AGTCCATACC TTCTACGTGG                                                 prM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  K  T  R  H   S  R  R   S  R  R   S  L  T  V   Q  T  H   G  E  S   T  L  A  N   K  K  G 2301 AAGACACGCC ACTCAAGACG CAGTCGGAGG TCACTGACAG TGCAGACACA CGGAGAAAGC ACTCTAGCGA ACAAGAAGGG TTCTGTGCGG TGAGTTCTGC GTCAGCCTCC AGTGACTGTC ACGTCTGTGT GCCTCTTTCG TGAGATCGCT TGTTCTTCCC           prM ---------------------   A  W  M   D  S  T  K • GGCTTGGATG GACAGCACCA CCGAACCTAC CTGTCGTGGT                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  T  R   Y  L  V   K  T  E  S   W  I  L   R  N  P   G  Y  A  L   V  A  A   V  I  G 2401 AGGCCACAAG GTATTTGGTA AAAACAGAAT CATGGATCTT GAGGAACCCT GGATATGCCC TGGTGGCAGC CGTCATTGGT TCCGGTGTTC CATAAACCAT TTTTGTCTTA GTACCTAGAA CTCCTTGGGA CCTATACGGG ACCACCGTCG GCAGTAACCA           prM ---------------------  W  M  L  G   S  N  T • TGGATGCTTG GGAGCAACAC ACCTACGAAC CCTCGTTGTG                                                 prM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • M  Q  R   V  V  F  V   V  L  L   L  L  V   A  P  A  Y   S  F  N   C  L  G   M  S  N  R 2501 CATGCAGAGA GTTGTGTTTG TCGTGCTATT GCTTTTGGTG GCCCCAGCTT ACAGCTTTAA CTGCCTTGGA ATGAGCAACA GTACGTCTCT CAACACAAAC AGCACGATAA CGAAAACCAC CGGGGTCGAA TGTCGAAATT GACGGAACCT TACTCGTTGT           prM ---------------------    D  F  L   E  G  V GAGACTTCTT GGAAGGAGTG CTCTGAAGAA CCTTCCTCAC                                      prM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                       E                                                                                      ---  S  G  A  T   W  V  D   L  V  L   E  G  D  S   C  V  T   I  M  S   K  D  K  P   T  I  D 2601 TCTGGAGCAA CATGGGTGGA TTTGGTTCTC GAAGGCGACA GCTGCGTGAC TATCATGTCT AAGGACAAGC CTACCATCGA AGACCTCGTT GTACCCACCT AAACCAAGAG CTTCCGCTGT CGACGCACTG ATAGTACAGA TTCCTGTTCG GATGGTAGCT           E ---------------------   V  K  M   M  N  M  E • TGTGAAGATG ATGAATATGG ACACTTCTAC TACTTATACC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  A  A  N   L  A  E   V  R  S  Y   C  Y  L   A  T  V   S  D  L  S   T  K  A   A  C  P 2701 AGGCGGCCAA CCTGGCAGAG GTCCGCAGTT ATTGCTATTT GGCTACCGTC AGCGATCTCT CCACCAAAGC TGCGTGCCCG TCCGCCGGTT GGACCGTCTC CAGGCGTCAA TAACGATAAA CCGATGGCAG TCGCTAGAGA GGTGGTTTCG ACGCACGGGC           E ---------------------  A  M  G  E   A  H  N • GCCATGGGAG AAGCTCACAA CGGTACCCTC TTCGAGTGTT                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • D  K  R   A  D  P  A   F  V  C   R  Q  G   V  V  D  R   G  W  G   N  G  C   G  L  F  G 2801 TGACAAACGT GCTGACCCAG CTTTTGTGTG CAGACAAGGA GTGGTGGACA GGGGCTGGGG CAACGGCTGC GGACTATTTG ACTGTTTGCA CGACTGGGTC GAAAACACAC GTCTGTTCCT CACCACCTGT CCCCGACCCC GTTGCCGACG CCTGATAAAC           E ---------------------    K  G  S   I  D  T GCAAAGGAAG CATTGACACA CGTTTCCTTC GTAACTGTGT                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  C  A  K  F   A  C  S   T  K  A   I  G  R  T   I  L  K   E  N  I   K  Y  E  V   A  I  F 2901 TGCGCCAAAT TTGCCTGCTC TACCAAGGCA ATAGGAAGAA CCATTTTGAA AGAGAATATC AAGTACGAAG TGGCCATTTT ACGCGGTTTA AACGGACGAG ATGGTTCCGT TATCCTTCTT GGTAAAACTT TCTCTTATAG TTCATGCTTC ACCGGTAAAA           E ---------------------   V  H  G   P  T  T  V • TGTCCATGGA CCAACTACTG ACAGGTACCT GGTTGATGAC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  E  S  H   G  N  Y   S  T  Q  V   G  A  T   Q  A  G   R  F  S  I   T  P  A   A  P  S 3001 TGGAGTCGCA CGGAAACTAC TCCACACAGG TTGGAGCCAC TCAGGCAGGG AGATTCAGCA TCACTCCTGC GGCGCCTTCA ACCTCAGCGT GCCTTTGATG AGGTGTGTCC AACCTCGGTG AGTCCGTCCC TCTAAGTCGT AGTGAGGACG CCGCGGAAGT           E ---------------------  Y  T  L  K   L  G  E • TACACACTAA AGCTTGGAGA ATGTGTGATT TCGAACCTCT                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Y  G  E   V  T  V  D   C  E  P   R  S  G   I  D  T  N   A  Y  Y   V  M  T   V  G  T  K 3101 ATATGGAGAG GTGACAGTGG ACTGTGAACC ACGGTCAGGG ATTGACACCA ATGCATACTA CGTGATGACT GTTGGAACAA TATACCTCTC CACTGTCACC TGACACTTGG TGCCAGTCCC TAACTGTGGT TACGTATGAT GCACTACTGA CAACCTTGTT           E ---------------------    T  F  L   V  H  R AGACGTTCTT GGTCCATCGT TCTGCAAGAA CCAGGTAGCA                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E  W F M   D  L  N   L  P  W   S  S  A  G   S  T  V   W  R  N   R  E  T  L   M  E  F 3201 GAGTGGTTCA TGGACCTCAA CCTCCCTTGG AGCAGTGCTG GAAGTACTGT GTGGAGGAAC AGAGAGACGT TAATGGAGTT CTCACCAAGT ACCTGGAGTT GGAGGGAACC TCGTCACGAC CTTCATGACA CACCTCCTTG TCTCTCTGCA ATTACCTCAA           E ---------------------   E  E  P   H  A  T  K • TGAGGAACCA CACGCCACGA ACTCCTTGGT GTGCGGTGCT                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  Q  S  V   I  A  L   G  S  Q  E   G  A  L   H  Q  A   L  A  G  A   I  P  V   E  F  S 3301 AGCAGTCTGT GATAGCATTG GGCTCACAAG AGGGAGCTCT GCATCAAGCT TTGGCTGGAG CCATTCCTGT GGAATTTTCA TCGTCAGACA CTATCGTAAC CCGAGTGTTC TCCCTCGAGA CGTAGTTCGA AACCGACCTC GGTAAGGACA CCTTAAAAGT           E --------------------  S  N  T  V   K  L  T • AGCAACACTG TCAAGTTGAC TCGTTGTGAC AGTTCAACTG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • S  G  H   L  K  C  R   V  K  M   E  K  L   Q  L  K  G   T  T  Y   G  V  C   S  K  A  F 3401 GTCGGGTCAT TTGAAGTGTA GAGTGAAGAT GGAAAAATTG CAGTTGAAGG GAACAACCTA TGGCGTCTGT TCAAAGGCTT CAGCCCAGTA AACTTCACAT CTCACTTCTA CCTTTTTAAC GTCAACTTCC CTTGTTGGAT ACCGCAGACA AGTTTCCGAA           E ---------------------    K  F  L   G  T  P TCAAGTTTCT TGGGACTCCC AGTTCAAAGA ACCCTGAGGG                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  A  D  T  G   H  G  T   V  V  L   E  L  Q  Y   T  G  T   D  G  P   C  K  V  P   I  S  S 3501 GCAGACACAG GTCACGGCAC TGTGGTGTTG GAATTGCAGT ACACTGGCAC GGATGGACCT TGCAAAGTTC CTATCTCGTC CGTCTGTGTC CAGTGCCGTG ACACCACAAC CTTAACGTCA TGTGACCGTG CCTACCTGGA ACGTTTCAAG GATAGAGCAG           E ---------------------   V  A  S   L  N  D  L • AGTGGCTTCA TTGAACGACC TCACCGAAGT AACTTGCTGG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  T  P  V   G  R  L   V  T V  N   P  F  V   S  V  A   T  A  N  A   K  V  L   I  E  L 3601 TAACGCCAGT GGGCAGATTG GTCACTGTCA ACCCTTTTGT TTCAGTGGCC ACGGCCAACG CTAAGGTCCT GATTGAATTG ATTGCGGTCA CCCGTCTAAC CAGTGACAGT TGGGAAAACA AAGTCACCGG TGCCGGTTGC GATTCCAGGA CTAACTTAAC           E ---------------------  E  P  P  F   G  D  S • GAACCACCCT TTGGAGACTC CTTGGTGGGA AACCTCTGAG                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Y  I  V   V  G  R  G   E  Q  Q   I  N  H   H  W  H  K   S  G  S   S  I  G   K  A  F  T 3701 ATACATAGTG GTGGGCAGAG GAGAACAACA GATCAATCAC CACTGGCACA AGTCTGGAAG CAGCATTGGC AAAGCCTTTA TATGTATCAC CACCCGTCTC CTCTTGTTGT CTAGTTAGTG GTGACCGTGT TCAGACCTTC GTCGTAACCG TTTCGGAAAT           E ---------------------    T  T  L   K  G  A CAACCACCCT CAAAGGAGCG GTTGGTGGGA GTTTCCTCGC                                                  E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Q  R  L  A   A  L  G   D  T  A   W  D  F  G   S  V  G   G  V  F   T  S  V  G   K  A  V 3801 CAGAGACTAG CCGCTCTAGG AGACACAGCT TGGGACTTTG GATCAGTTGG AGGGGTGTTC ACCTCAGTTG GGAAGGCTGT GTCTCTGATC GGCGAGATCC TCTGTGTCGA ACCCTGAAAC CTAGTCAACC TCCCCACAAG TGGAGTCAAC CCTTCCGACA           E ---------------------   H  Q  V   F  G  G  A • CCATCAAGTG TTCGGAGGAG GGTAGTTCAC AAGCCTCCTC                                                  E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •  F  R  S   L  F  G   G  M  S  W   I  T  Q   G  L  L   G  A  L  L   L  W  M   G  I  N 3901 CATTCCGCTC ACTGTTCGGA GGCATGTCCT GGATAACGCA AGGATTGCTG GGGGCTCTCC TGTTGTGGAT GGGCATCAAT GTAAGGCGAG TGACAAGCCT CCGTACAGGA CCTATTGCGT TCCTAACGAC CCCCGAGAGG ACAACACCTA CCCGTAGTTA           E ---------------------  A  R  D  R   S  I  A • GCTCGTGACA GGTCCATAGC CGAGCACTGT CCAGGTATCG                                                                           NS1                                                                -------------------------                                 E --------------------------------------------------------------- • L  T  F   L  A  V  G   G  V  L   L  F  L   S  V  N  V   H  A  D   T  G  C   A  I D  I 4001 TCTCACGTTT CTCGCAGTTG GAGGAGTTCT GCTCTTCCTC TCCGTGAACG TGCACGCTGA CACTGGGTGT GCCATAGACA AGAGTGCAAA GAGCGTCAAC CTCCTCAAGA CGAGAAGGAG AGGCACTTGC ACGTGCGACT GTGACCCACA CGGTATCTGT          NS1 ---------------------    S  R  Q   E  L  R TCAGCCGGCA AGAGCTGAGA AGTCGGCCGT TCTCGACTCT

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Various modifications and variations of the described viruses, vectors, compositions, and methods of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Although the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments, it should be understood that the invention as claimed should not be unduly limited to such specific embodiments. Indeed, various modifications of the described modes for carrying out the invention that are obvious to those skilled in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, or related fields are intended to be within the scope of the invention. Use of singular forms herein, such as “a” and “the,” does not exclude indication of the corresponding plural form, unless the context indicates to the contrary. Similarly, use of plural terms does not exclude indication of a corresponding singular form. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. 

1. A replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a flavivirus genome comprising (i) one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), and (ii) a sequence encoding one or more heterologous pathogen, cancer, or allergy-related immunogens.
 2. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, wherein: said one or more deletions or mutations is within capsid (C) sequences of the flavivirus genome; said one or more deletions or mutations is within pre-membrane (prM) and/or envelope (E) sequences of the flavivirus genome; said one or more deletions or mutations is within capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), and envelope (E) sequences of the flavivirus genome; or said one or more deletions or mutations is within non-structural protein 1 (NS1) sequences of the flavivirus genome. 3-5. (canceled)
 6. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, wherein said heterologous immunogen is from a pathogen selected from the group consisting of a rabies virus, Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick, an influenza virus, a human immunodeficiency virus, a simian immunodeficiency virus, a human papilloma virus, a respiratory syncytial virus, malaria parasite, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
 7. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 6, wherein said heterologous immunogen comprises: a rabies virus G protein immunogen or an immunogenic fragment thereof; Borrelia burgdorferi OspA immunogen or an immunogenic fragment thereof; a tick saliva protein selected from the group consisting of 64TRP, Isac, and Salp20, or an immunogenic fragment thereof; an influenza virus M2, hemaglutinnin (HA), or neuraminidase (NA) epitope, or an immunogenic fragment thereof; a codon-optimized HIV gag, tat/nef, or gp120 protein, or an immunogenic fragment thereof; an HPV16 or HPV18 capsid protein L1 or L2, or an immunogenic fragment thereof; or a respiratory syncytial virus F or G glycoprotein. 8-13. (canceled)
 14. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, wherein said flavivirus genome comprises sequences encoding a pre-membrane (prM) and/or envelope (E) protein.
 15. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, wherein the flavivirus genome is selected from that of yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Langat virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, dengue virus, and St. Louis encephalitis virus sequences, and chimeras thereof.
 16. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 15, wherein said genome of said chimera comprises pre-membrane (prM) and envelope (E) sequences of a first flavivirus, and capsid (C) and non-structural sequences of a second, different flavivirus.
 17. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 16, wherein said first flavivirus is a tick-borne encephalitis virus or a Langat virus; and/or said second, different flavivirus is a yellow fever virus or a West Nile virus or Langat virus.
 18. (canceled)
 19. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, wherein said genome is packaged in a particle comprising pre-membrane (prM) and envelope (E) sequences from a flavivirus that is the same or different from that of the genome.
 20. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, wherein sequences encoding said heterologous immunogen are inserted: in the place of or in combination with the one or more deletions or mutations of the one or more proteins; and/or in the flavivirus genome within sequences encoding the envelope (E) protein, within sequences encoding the non-structural 1 (NS1) protein, within sequences encoding the pre-membrane (prM) protein, intergenically between sequences encoding the envelope (E) protein and non-structural protein 1 (NS1), intergenically between non-structural protein 2B (NS2B) and non-structural protein 3 (NS3), or as a bicistronic insertion in the 3′ untranslated region of the flavivirus genome.
 21. (canceled)
 22. A composition comprising a first replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1 and a second, different replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein the one or more proteins encoded by the sequences in which the one or more deletion(s) or mutation(s) occur in the second, different replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus are different from the one or more proteins encoded by the sequences in which the one or more deletion(s) or mutation(s) occur in the first replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus.
 23. A method of inducing an immune response to a heterologous immunogen and/or a flavivirus immunogen in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject one or more replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses of claim 1 to the subject.
 24. The method of claim 23, wherein the subject is at risk of but does not have an infection by said pathogen and/or said flavivirus, or a disease or condition associated with said cancer or allergy-related immunogen, or the subject has an infection by said pathogen and/or flavivirus, or a disease or condition associated with said cancer or allergy-related immunogen.
 25. (canceled)
 26. The method of claim 23, wherein the immunogen is from a pathogen selected from the group consisting of a rabies virus, Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick, an influenza virus, a human immunodeficiency virus, a simian immunodeficiency virus, a human papilloma virus, a respiratory syncytial virus, malaria parasite, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 27-29. (canceled)
 30. A live, attenuated chimeric flavivirus comprising: a yellow fever virus in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis virus or a Langat virus, and the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the chimeric flavivirus comprises a hybrid of yellow fever virus and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequences, or a variant thereof; or a West Nile virus in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus, and the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the chimeric flavivirus comprises a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence, or a variant thereof.
 31. The live, attenuated chimeric flavivirus of claim 30, wherein the capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence of the chimeric flavivirus comprises yellow fever virus sequences in the amino terminal region and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences in the carboxy terminal region.
 32. (canceled)
 33. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 1, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent, and optionally an adjuvant.
 34. (canceled)
 35. A replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a flavivirus genome comprising one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), or non-structural protein 5 (NS5).
 36. A nucleic acid molecule corresponding to the genome of a pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim
 1. 37. A method of making a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus, the method comprising introducing a nucleic acid molecule of claim 36 into a cell that expresses the protein corresponding to any sequences deleted from the flavivirus genome of the replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus.
 38. The method of claim 37, wherein the protein is expressed in the cell from the genome of a second, different, replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus, or the protein is expressed from a replicon, which is optionally an alphavirus replicon, such as a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus. 39-41. (canceled)
 42. A composition comprising two or more replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses, wherein two of the replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flaviviruses are selected from the groups consisting of: (a) a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising Japanese encephalitis virus sequences, and a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising dengue virus sequences; (b) a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising yellow fever virus sequences, and a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising dengue virus sequences; and (c) a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences and an inserted sequence encoding a Borrelia burgdorferi immunogen, and a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences and an inserted sequence encoding a tick saliva protein immunogen, or a replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising a genome comprising tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences and inserted sequences encoding a Borrelia burgdorferi immunogen and a tick saliva protein immunogen.
 43. (canceled)
 44. A method of inducing an immune response to tick-borne encephalitis virus or Langat virus in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a live, attenuated chimeric flavivirus of claim
 30. 45. The method of claim 44, wherein the subject does not have but is at risk of developing infection by tick-borne encephalitis virus or Langat virus, or the subject is infected with tick-borne encephalitis virus or Langat virus.
 46. (canceled)
 47. A replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus comprising: a flavivirus genome comprising one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein the flavivirus genome comprises yellow fever virus sequences in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis virus or a Langat virus, and sequences encoding the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the flavivirus genome comprise a hybrid of sequences encoding yellow fever virus and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequences, or a variant thereof, a flavivirus genome comprising one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein the flavivirus genome comprises West Nile virus sequences in which sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins are replaced with sequences encoding pre-membrane and envelope proteins of a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus, and the sequences encoding the signal sequence between the capsid and pre-membrane proteins of the flavivirus genome comprise sequences encoding a tick-borne encephalitis or a Langat virus capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence, or a variant thereof; or a flavivirus genome comprising one or more deletions or mutations in nucleotide sequences encoding one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of capsid (C), pre-membrane (prM), envelope (E), non-structural protein 1 (NS1), non-structural protein 3 (NS3), and non-structural protein 5 (NS5), wherein any capsid (C) and non-structural (NS) proteins in said flavivirus genome are from Langat virus and any pre-membrane (prM) and envelope (E) proteins are from a tick-borne encephalitis virus.
 48. The replication-deficient pseudoinfectious flavivirus of claim 47, wherein the sequences encoding the capsid/pre-membrane signal sequence of the flavivirus genome comprise yellow fever virus sequences in the 5′ region and tick-borne encephalitis or Langat virus sequences in the 3′ region. 49-50. (canceled) 